Bug 509787 - [EASYFIX] Pidgin does not detect presence of gnome-network-properties program
Summary: [EASYFIX] Pidgin does not detect presence of gnome-network-properties program
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pidgin
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Warren Togami
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-07-06 08:08 UTC by Felix Schwarz
Modified: 2010-01-25 14:16 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-01-25 14:16:44 UTC
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Description Felix Schwarz 2009-07-06 08:08:43 UTC
Description of problem:
When I go to Tools - Preferences - Network, pidgin tells me that the proxy configuration program was not found. Therefore the button to configure proxies system-wide is disabled.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pidgin-2.5.8-1.fc11.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Actual results:
- Button is disabled, notification text is displayed

Expected results:
- Button should be clickable

Additional info:
The problem is that pidgin checks for gnome-network-preferences but in Fedora 11 it is called gnome-network-properties. As a workaround I can just create a symlink in /usr/bin and the button starts working.

Comment 1 Elliott Sales de Andrade 2009-11-26 19:18:16 UTC
Fixed upstream: http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/79639d895e39ef23c24691d0736a265373e2b49c
Will be in 2.6.4.

Comment 2 Mark Doliner 2010-01-25 08:50:05 UTC
FYI: External bug in Ubuntu Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/331067


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