[Bug 1100587] Re: gnome-control-center does not remove system-wide proxy settings from /etc/environment when switch from manual to automatic mode.

[Margarita Manterola]

The code in raring is completely different, so even if I don't have a
raring box to test it right now, I'm assuming it's unaffected by this
bug.  The code in quantal, however, is basically the same as in precise.
I have prepared a patch based on the quantal version, debdiff attached.

** Patch added: "quantal debdiff that fixes the bug"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1100587/+attachment/3515612/+files/quantal-fix-for-1100587.diff

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Title:
  gnome-control-center does not remove system-wide proxy settings from
  /etc/environment when switch from manual to automatic mode.

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

Bug description:
  12.04, Unity, on a x220.

  Go into system settings => network => Network Proxy => Method => Manual
  Set a proxy (I chose 'goats' for the http bit, and 8080 as the port.

  Click on 'apply system wide'.

  Note that /etc/environment contains 'http_proxy="http://goats:8080"'

  Then go into system settings => network => Network Proxy => Method => Automatic
  Set my automatic proxy config URL to my companies wpad.dat.
  Click on 'apply system wide'

  Note that /etc/environment still contains 'http_proxy="http://goats:8080".
  This ends up hosing specific applications that read the proxy from the environment, instead of from wherever GNOME stores this data.

  Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Precise

  gnome-control-center-1:3.4.2-0ubuntu0.8 (from precise-updates)

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