Regarding the previous comment: the gnome-terminal in Dapper already sets the http_proxy/no_proxy environment variables (used by most applications e.g. curl, wget, apt-get) according to gconf settings. ftp_proxy is not set, not sure why.
-- firefox(-gnome-support) should get proxy from gconf https://launchpad.net/bugs/23369 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs