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

[Felipe Contreras]

First of all, GNOME never switched from Pidgin to Empathy because Pidgin
has never been part of GNOME, and has never intended to. It's just a
GTK+ app that has never collaborated with anyone... GNOME,
freedesktop.org, etc. So, before Empathy, GNOME didn't really have an
alternative.

Now, I think distributions should have made proxy support a _blocker_
feature for Empathy inclusion (regardless of GNOME's decision), but that
didn't happen, and now people are complaining (understandably) because
the default IM client just doesn't work (for them).

I don't agree with Guillaume, I think people have a reason to complain,
but it would be nice to do it in a more constructive manner, and perhaps
follow the upstream bugs, and perhaps provide some testing. However, the
upstream bugs are very scattered and unclear.

For example, telepathy-haze *already* has proxy support since libpurple
already has proxy support, however, it works mostly by accident, behind
the back of telepathy-haze using GConf. All Telepathy guys need to do is
add some configuration to pass to libpurple, and use telepathy-haze
instead of native CM's.

Unfortunately, for political reasons I doubt Telepathy guys would do
that, instead they will wait until their native CM's do support proxy
properly.

If Ubuntu guys are interested, I'm sure I can provide patches for that.

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Does not use system proxy settings
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