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[MrCopilot <861443@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No sweat, I'll file the upstream bug, however let me quote the
desription of this bug and your reply and you can weigh wether this bug
is squashed.

>>I can't found a easy (not-cli, at least) way of changing the proxy
settings in Ubuntu 11.10.

>>As you undoubtedly have noticed, the option is still available via command-line, as such:
>>gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy ignore-hosts ['localhost', '127.0.0.0/8', 'some.other.host']

Clearly, no_proxy or ignore_hosts is a proxy setting. Just try using
curl in a corporate intranet environment of moderate size without it.

I would also expect to see seperate setting for https_proxy but that at
least is an actual edgecase.

The minor inconvienience of finding out, "why is the intranet down" was easily remedied, "proxy settings changed".
Long time user, setting via commandline of via the tool d'jure for gconf was also easily discoverable and was minimally distracting overall.

What is more disturbing was the choice to blindly update the tools with
a demonstrably inferior reiteration. That is a Ubuntu decision, and a
Ubuntu bug. I recommend ubuntu to many of my coworkers, taking down
access to 50% to 90% of their job this morning was a bug.

Network setup, configuration, and maintenance must be a high priority,
if there is no maintainer for those packages that touch these areas and
ship with the base Ubuntu install, then I am taken well aback. If there
is such person(s) they let quite a few of us down today, and tarnished
an otherwise shiny and spreading Ubuntu reputation within our
organization.

So, I will leave the way I came in, disappointed...

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Title:
  There is no easy way to change proxy settings in Ubuntu 11.10

Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “gnome-control-center” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released
Status in “network-manager-applet” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I can't found a easy (not-cli, at least) way of changing the proxy
  settings in Ubuntu 11.10. There is no option to change any network
  settings in gnome-control-center, and the network-applet does not have
  the option to change the proxy.

  I think that a GUI for changing the proxy is a must-have, specially
  since it was available in Ubuntu 11.04. Also, is my opinion that, at
  least in the long term, the proxy settings should be related to the
  network options, so a different proxy is set to every network
  (specially important for notebooks with are used in different
  locations).

  A screenshot of gnome-control-center is attached, showing the lack of
  network options.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Sep 28 11:03:32 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110921.2)
  SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
   deja-dup           20.0-0ubuntu3
   gnome-bluetooth    3.2.0-0ubuntu1
   indicator-datetime 0.2.95-0ubuntu1

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