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[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>]

> But there is nothing to be done for Empathy itself here -- so it is
Invalid as a bug task.

This is not true. The upstream "support" would just use the GNOME proxy
settings, and it would not be possible to configure the proxy per-
account, for that you would still need changes in Empathy.

If you assume this is only to read the system settings, then yes, this
is not a bug in Empathy, it has to be implemented in all the telepathy
connection managers but the list above (haze, gabble, and idle) is not
nearly complete. Plus, none of those bugs have any priority, severity,
or even any comment there.

At this point it would be useful to do what Fedora does, have keep this
bug open as a metabug, or tracking bug, and when all the  telepathy CM's
are fixed, then this is closed.

Moreover, the upstream tracking bugs are wrong.

Bug #22065 is not to use system proxy settings in telepathy-haze, in
fact, it's for exactly the opposite; have an option to *disable* the
proxy for this particular account, for which actually, you would need
changes in Empathty. In fact, if you read the comments above in this bug
report, you would see that people confirm that telepathy-haze is
actually the only one that works.

You could fix this bug *today* if you wanted to, by just distributing
telepathy-haze, and not the other connection managers. So there's
something Ubuntu can do to fix this, but you just don't want to.

Bug #16034 has nothing to do with system proxy settings, which
supposedly telepathy-gabble already supports (although not that
smoothly). It is about user/password authentication to the proxy.

Interestingly enough if you read comment #2, a telepathy developer
suggests as an option to modify Empathy to allow configuring the proxy
settings in a *per account* way:

> (b) Empathy gains http-proxy-server, http-proxy-port, http-proxy-
username and http-proxy-password parameters in the Advanced area of
account config

Bug #12376 is correct, but as you can see, there's nothing going on over
there.

So, do you want to fix this or not? If you want to fix this, then
closing the bug is like shuffling it under the carpet... It won't
achieve anything.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304889

Title:
  Does not use system proxy settings

Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
  Invalid
Status in Jabber/XMPP connection manager:
  Confirmed
Status in Telepathy Haze:
  Confirmed
Status in A full-featured IRC connection manager for telepathy.:
  Confirmed
Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “empathy” source package in Lucid:
  Invalid
Status in “empathy” package in Unity Linux:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: empathy

  Empathy wont connect to any major service trough a proxy. I've tried Google Talk, Jabber, MSN and Yahoo.
  I set the proxy preferences in GNOME, it's a plain proxy for all protocols, without authentication.

  Pidgin works normally in the same setup.

  Ubuntu 8.10, Empathy 2.24.1

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