SUMMARY No support for KDE system wide proxy. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. prevent outgoing traffic (http, https, ftp depending on your apt configuration) 2. setup a proxy 3. setup that proxy using KDE system settings 4. try to get any package using discover: no connection OBSERVED RESULT No connection (timeout) EXPECTED RESULT Downloading packages SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: In this case KUbuntu 18.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.12.6 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.44? Qt Version: 5.9.5
This will be part of Plasma 5.15, it wasn't available yet in 5.12. Sorry. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 398321 ***
Thank you for the heads up. No backport expected to 5.12 I take it?