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[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo.moya@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I already said, gnome control center does not use GConf anymore for
this, since a year already, so what we need is a list of apps that still
use GConf, and we need to migrate them to use GSettings or, as a
fallback, make them use the correct GConf keys. This specific GConf keys
are not used anymore on the GSettings version, so even though we have
the GConf keys synced up with their corresponding GSettings keys (via a
plugin in gnome-settings-daemon), of course only the keys that are
changed in GSettings are synced. This means that the keys we don't use
will always have the same value in GConf.

So could people list the applications affected, or even better, add a
task to this bug for that specific app, so that the responsible for each
of those apps can have a look at patching it. But again, there's nothing
that can be done in gnome-control-center/gnome-settings-daemon

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876839

Title:
  Proxy GUI in 11.10 does not configure socks proxy for HTTP traffic

Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Running Ubuntu 11.10.

  gnome-control-center:
    Installed: 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu6
    Candidate: 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu6
    Version table:
   *** 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu6 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  The new GUI doesn't correctly toggle
  gconf/system/http_proxy/use_http_proxy to true when only a socks
  server is specified. Without this, neither Chrome nor Firefox will
  attempt to tunnel through socks. As a workaround, set this value
  manually using gconf-editor.

  Reproduce by setting up a socks server using the standard ssh -D
  <port> <user>@<remote_machine>. Attempt to configure the system-wide
  proxy by entering localhost and <port> into the new 11.10 proxy
  configuration utility's socks server fields. Open Chrome or Firefox
  and change the app's proxy settings to "use system". Notice that no
  HTTP traffic tunnels through the system socks proxy.

  Somewhat related: the ignored hosts list is very useful for users on
  corporate networks where they do need some internal resources. It
  should be included.

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