Frustration by Proxy

Why must I set my proxy settings in 4 or 5 different locations to get things working in Fedora!. I know this only affects a very small percentage of users as most people are not behind a proxy server, but for those of us who are, it is annoying.

Well behaved Gnomes apps read the proxy settings from gconf, set in the control center. Shell apps use the environment variable: ‘http_proxy’. Firefox uses it’s own preferences. And if you want to use a socks server for gaim, you need to set it their as well.

And now with the inclusion of pirut and pup in FC5 it needs to be set in ‘/etc/yum.conf`. Yum when called from the shell reads your environment variable settings, if you only run pup an pirut from the shell everything will work, but if you call them from the applications menu, yum is not passed the proxy settings, so they need to be explicitly set in yum.conf.

Surely pup and pirut should read the settings from gconf, but alas, they do not.