I've been trying to use a SOCKS Proxy which I have been using with success from an Ubuntu 11.4 box with GNOME on my Debian box with KDE.The socks server is bound to the local port 1080 through the following ssh command:ssh -p222 -D 1080 <my_username>@socks_server_domain_nameFollowing the advice I found here: http://emilsedgh.info/blog/index.php?/archives/14-SOCKS-proxy-on-KDE.html I edited my ~/.kde/share/config/kioslaverc file and now it looks like this:jason@debian-laptop:~$ cat ~/.kde/share/config/kioslavercPersistentProxyConnection=true[$Version]socksProxy=socks://localhost:1080update_info=kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r1,kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r2,kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r3However, once I use System Settings->Network Settings->Proxy, I click on Manually specify the proxy settings, but the dialog won't let me hit apply without prompting me to fill in information in the setup dialog:which is not helpful at all, because there is no SOCKS protocol option in the setup dialog. I'd also like to add that, when switching to GNOME in the same box, I am able to run the SOCKS proxy by specifying localhost and 1080 in System->Preferences->Network Proxy, in exact the same way I did it in my Ubuntu box.
SOCKS proxy configuration on KDE 4.4.5 / Debian 6.0.5
debian;networking;kde;proxy;socks