Bug 694819 - Pidgin doesn't pick up GNOME proxy settings
Summary: Pidgin doesn't pick up GNOME proxy settings
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pidgin
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Stu Tomlinson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-04-08 14:18 UTC by Theodore Lee
Modified: 2012-08-07 18:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 18:40:48 UTC
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Description Theodore Lee 2011-04-08 14:18:19 UTC
Description of problem:
On Fedora 15, setting a proxy using the GNOME network settings has no effect on Pidgin.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pidgin-2.7.11-2.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
This seems to be always reproducible when trying to set a SOCKS proxy to use.
Setting other proxy types doesn't seem to work either, although I haven't tried
those thoroughly.

Steps to Reproduce (generic):
1. Click on the NetworkManager icon and click 'Network Settings'.
2. Go to the 'Network proxy' settings.
3. Set the proxy method to 'Manual'.
4. Type the hostname and port of your proxy in the appropriate field.
5. Start Pidgin.

Actual results:
Pidgin tries to connect to the internet without using a proxy.

Expected results:
Pidgin should connect through the proxy specified in the network settings.

Additional info:
It seems that this issue is affecting a number of applications, which still attempt to fetch proxy settings from gconf instead of the new dconf backend.

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