Synaptic doesn't use central Gnome proxy settings

[Delan Azabani]

This is a minor bug; though it is quite annoying. Synaptic doesn't use the Gnome proxy settings (configurable via gnome-network-properties) so if I'm in a different location, I must not only change Gnome's settings (just by changing the location) but also manually copy the proxy data into Synaptic's preferences.

Note: the fact that Synaptic is run as root (gksu, not using PolicyKit) may cause implementation problems in that the home folder is /root and not /home/delan - causing the proxy settings to be read from the wrong user... unless...

Note #2: home dir locations ($HOME) depending on sudo type:
gksu: /root
gksudo: /root
sudo: /home/delan
sudo -s: /home/delan
sudo -i: /root

If this feature was to be implemented, it would be tricky as proxy settings could only be read from the correct user when using "sudo" or "sudo -s". The proxy settings would be read from root if "gksu", "gksudo" or "sudo -i" are used.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Assigning to synaptic, if I'm not mistaken it uses gksu/gksudo. Can you please give us the synaptic version, ubuntu release and the gksu verion that you're using? Thanks.

[Delan Azabani (azabani)]

Ubuntu 10.04
synaptic 0.63.1ubuntu6
gksu 2.0.2-2ubuntu2

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 13661, so it is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.