[Bug 304889] Re: Does not use system proxy settings

[C de-Avillez]

@Michal: there is a disconnect here: technically -- which where the bug
tasks come in -- this is not an Empathy issue: Empathy does not do
network. Network activities are performed by the so-called Connection
Managers (which I called protocol handlers), usually the
telepathy-<whatever> modules.

Support for proxy must be added in these modules, not on Empathy. This
may be -- or not -- a major undertaking; I do not know.

But, no matter what, the best place to ask for it is "upstream" (where
the authors reside). For each of the current valid tasks on this bug,
there is a link to the upstream bug. I had a quick look at them, and it
seems pretty much nothing has been done by the developers regarding
proxy usage. Comments there would probably help more than here.

And I do agree that lacking proxy support is not good. But this is a
bug, a technical report of an error/issue. No matter what you (or jorge
above) think, we have to have the correct modules listed.

Empathy (overall) suffers with the lack of proxy support. But there is
nothing to be done for Empathy itself here -- so it is Invalid as a bug
task. On the other hand, telepathy-gabble, telepathy-haze, and
telepathy-idle are correctly set.

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