I already explained many times how to fix this *right now* (in fact more than one year ago). See comment #76.
The fact of the matter is that Ubuntu people don't care, otherwise they would have marked it as critical as I suggested in comment #79. "It will be on the next release cycle" somebody said as an excuse. And here we are a year later. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304889 Title: Does not use system proxy settings -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs