since the gnome proxy will always be accessible by gconf and anyone else can override with , we don't need to support defaults for all of these proxy related things, and we certainly have no need of watching them in gconf. Just work the string out and do it already

terminator

@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ class TerminatorTerm:
       self._vte.connect ("child-exited", self.spawn_child)
     # We need to support "left" because some buggy versions of gnome-terminal
     #  set it in some situations
-    if exit_action in ("close", "left"):
+    elif exit_action in ("close", "left"):
       self._vte.connect ("child-exited", lambda close_term: self.terminator.closeterm (self))
 
     self._vte.add_events (gtk.gdk.ENTER_NOTIFY_MASK)
@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ class TerminatorTerm:
     if self.matches['nntp'] == -1:
       self.matches['nntp'] = self._vte.match_add ('''\<news:[-A-Z\^_a-z{|}~!"#$%&'()*+,./0-9;:=?`]+@[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?\>''')
 
+    env_proxy = os.getenv ('http_proxy')
+    if not env_proxy:
+      os.putenv ('http_proxy', self.conf.http_proxy)
     self.spawn_child ()
 
   def spawn_child (self, event=None):

terminatorconfig.py

@@ -108,12 +108,7 @@ class TerminatorConfValuestore:
     'custom_command'        : '',
     'use_system_font'       : True,
     'use_theme_colors'      : True,
-    'use_http_proxy'        : False,
-    'use_authentication'    : False,
-    'host'                  : '',
-    'port'                  : 0,
-    'authentication_user'   : '',
-    'authentication_password': '',
+    'http_proxy'            : '',
     'ignore_hosts'          : ['localhost','127.0.0.0/8','*.local'],
   }
 
@@ -193,8 +188,6 @@ class TerminatorConfValuestoreGConf (TerminatorConfValuestore):
     self.client.notify_add ('/apps/metacity/general/focus_mode', self.on_gconf_notify)
     self.client.add_dir ('/desktop/gnome/interface', gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_RECURSIVE)
     self.client.notify_add ('/desktop/gnome/interface/monospace_font_name', self.on_gconf_notify)
-    self.client.add_dir ('/system/http_proxy', gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_RECURSIVE)
-    self.client.notify_add ('/system/http_proxy', self.on_gconf_notify)
     # FIXME: Do we need to watch more non-profile stuff here?
 
   def set_reconfigure_callback (self, function):
@@ -218,25 +211,28 @@ class TerminatorConfValuestoreGConf (TerminatorConfValuestore):
       value = self.client.get ('/desktop/gnome/interface/monospace_font_name')
     elif key == 'focus':
       value = self.client.get ('/apps/metacity/general/focus_mode')
-    elif key == 'use_http_proxy':
-      value = self.client.get ('/system/http_proxy/use_http_proxy')
-    elif key == 'use_authentication':
-      value = self.client.get ('/system/http_proxy/use_authentication')
-    elif key == 'host':
-      value = self.client.get ('/system/http_proxy/host')
-    elif key == 'port':
-      value = self.client.get ('/system/http_proxy/port')
-    elif key == 'authentication_user':
-      value = self.client.get ('/system/http_proxy/authentication_user')
-    elif key == 'authentication_password':
-      value = self.client.get ('/system/http_proxy/authentication_password')
-    elif key == 'ignore_hosts':
-      value = self.client.get ('/system/http_proxy/ignore_hosts')
+    elif key == 'http_proxy':
+      if self.client.get_bool ('/system/http_proxy/use_http_proxy'):
+        dbg ('HACK: Mangling http_proxy')
+
+        if self.client.get_bool ('use_authentication'):
+          dbg ('HACK: Using proxy authentication')
+          value = 'http://%s:%s@%s:%s/'%(
+            self.client.get_string ('/system/http_proxy/authentication_user'), 
+            self.client.get_string ('/system/http_proxy/authentication_password'), 
+            self.client.get_string ('/system/http_proxy/host'), 
+            self.client.get_int ('/system/http_proxy/port'))
+        else:
+          dbg ('HACK: Not using proxy authentication')
+          value = 'http://%s:%s/'%(
+            self.client.get_string ('/system/http_proxy/host'),
+            self.client.get_int ('/system/http_proxy/port'))
     else:
       value = self.client.get ('%s/%s'%(self.profile, key))
 
     if value:
       funcname = "get_" + self.defaults[key].__class__.__name__
+      dbg ('  GConf: picked function: %s'%funcname)
       # Special case for str
       if funcname == "get_str":
         funcname = "get_string"
@@ -281,12 +277,5 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
   # This should raise AttributeError
   #print foo.blimnle
 
-  debug = False
-  print "use proxy: %d"%foo.use_http_proxy
-  print "use proxy auth: %d"%foo.use_authentication
-  print "proxy host: %s"%foo.host
-  print "proxy port: %d"%foo.port
-  print "proxy user: %s"%foo.authentication_user
-  print "proxy pass: %s"%foo.authentication_password
-  for host in foo.ignore_hosts:
-    print "proxy ignore: %s"%host
+  # http_proxy is a value that is allowed to not exist
+  print "final proxy: %s"%foo.http_proxy