Comment 106 for bug 387308

I don't think one has to increase the visibility anymore for that one by getting more people to click "This bug affects me." And it is surely more than 181 people.
The reason is that we deal here with a more basic concept of proxy servers and not that some specialized function of a program like: "When I open a *.png file with an underscore in its name the program crashes" or other funny stuff.

Normal everyday users that don't really care about the way software is developed (reporting bugs etc) will surely not get a Launchpad account just to report that Ubuntu One doesn't work for them at their work place.
And as I understood it, the goal of Ubuntu is accessibility and having an all-in-one package for the (non-geeky) masses. These people will come to the conclusion that Ubuntu and maybe even Linux in general is buggy and working only half of the time (which is feeding anti-FOSS arguments).
These people will expect that when they have a global proxy setting and the application itself does not have a way to change its behavior and it doesn't work... the conclusion is: "It is a broken piece of software". And they are right to do so... actually that is my conclusion too...
After 2 years it is beyond being a "missing feature"... I'd say it is a bug/broken/neglectance... or how you want to call it...