xchat-gnome always uses xchat's http proxy settings

[Joel Stanley]

As suggested in https://launchpad.net/bugs/31812, xchat-gnome is capable of connecting through http proxys as it shares its backend with xchat, however, there is no GUI for configuring that setting.

It was suggested in that bug to use xchat to set the proxy, as it shares its config profile with xchat-gnome. This does work, however, once a proxy is set in xchat, it cannot be unset in xchat-gnome.

Unsure if this is a dupe of bug 31812, as they share a solution - impliment a proxy config for xchat-gnome. However, I believe the problem of having settings in one program changed by another without alerting the user is a different, slightly more important problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. The other one points to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331607 which is about using the GNOME proxy setting, I'm marking it as duplicate