Comment 76 for bug 304889

Guillaume: here's a technical argument: Empathy doesn't work.

That's a blocker. As long as the bug is not blocker, the best thing users can do is complain. Once the bug is marked as blocker, then there's no point in users complaining since developers are already aware of the importance of the bug.

So, either mark the bug as critical, or endure users' complaints.

Read the telepathy-haze bug report (22065), libpurple is *already* fetching proxy settings from GConf regardless.

IMHO you are not aware of the importance of this bug and not listening either. You are planning for something that's completely irrelevant.

Listen to what AbelChiaro said: he needs to *switch off* the proxy settings in GNOME in order to log in to Sametime. Why is that? Because libpurple is reading them and telepathy-haze doesn't provide any way to configure that. He doesn't need proxy support in libpurple (or haze), he needs proxy *configuration* support.

So how do we fix this bug?
 1) Make proxy settings configurable in telepathy-haze (easy)
 2) Prioritize telepathy-haze over other CM's (gabble, idle, butterfly)

If Ubuntu guys are ok with 2), I can do 1).