Network Proxy settings ignored by Gnome apps

[shiechka]

The Network Proxy Gnome settings are ignored by Firefox and other Gnome applications. I *think* I recall in Breezy it used to work though...

[shiechka (werchowyna)]

I'm talking about Dapper, daily updated.

[Kevin Kubasik (kkubasik)]

Can you confirm this on the edgy beta?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

firefox is not a GNOME application. Do you have an example of other application having the issue?

[shiechka (werchowyna)]

Other Gnome apps that ignore the Network Proxy settings:

d4x
gnu gadu

Firefox is shipped with Ubuntu as a default WWW browser for Gnome environment. Then it is a Gnome app.

I can't confirm the bug with Edgy beta because I'm using Linux for work, not for the delight of hacking. Can you confirm it with the *last stable*, ie. Dapper and fix it there?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

All the packages you mentioned are not GNOME packages, meaning they are not maintained by upstream GNOME, cf. http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointFifteen/Desktop

If you want to get the issues fix, you need to write bug reports for the indiviudal applications - that's nothing that can be fixed in control-center.

[shiechka (werchowyna)]

Then what is that GNOME's Network Proxy all for? I mean, if it doens't influence my apps it is only a redundant, missleading feature. Not mentioning that it could hamper my security (proxy, you know).

Don't tell me it is wrong to expect it to control proxy settings system wide - it is located in System->Preferences. Remove it or fix it but don't ignore my report, damn it.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We don't ignore you report, just point that's not due to GNOME. In fact that's a firefox issue and already known as bug #23369. If you want a browser nicely integrated to GNOME give a try to epiphany-browser. firefox is shipped because as default for marketing reason (it's known by many users, works under windows, etc) not because it's the GNOME browser

[shiechka (werchowyna)]

I appreciate your kind and calm response to my jumpy one, but I'm affraid you still miss the point of this report. The program being discussed has it's menu entry in Gnome's System->Preferences. Thus, it is natural the user will expect it to work "System" wide (Firefox is only an example). As we know - it doesn't actually do that. IOW, it doesn't fulfill the function it suggests it would fulfill. Thus, either fix it to perform the function it should perform, according to it's context, or, if that's impossible, remove it from System->Preferences.

[Murray Cumming (murrayc)]

The bug of which this is a duplicate, 23369, has a patch to add GNOME proxy support to firefox. So that's firefox addressed. What other applications have the same problem?