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If the user uses the installer to install the IDE, the installer will ask the user for proxy setting. The setting will be stored in a file <idehome>/installer/pre-settings.properties with a format similar to .properties file. When the user (who may not be the same person as the one who installed the IDE) runs the IDE for the first time, the IDE should pick up the default site-specific proxy settings from that file. The interesting keys are proxy_host=<hostname> proxy_port=<port>
-> rmatous
Fixed in trunk (IDESettings 1.42).