Re: Global Proxy Settings

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

"James M. Cape" <jcape ignore-your tv> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently writing a socket wrapper lib for version 2 of GNOME, and
> would like to support global proxy settings via GConf. The only sticky
> points are what to name the keys, and who installs the schema.

Cool!  Good idea.

> So far, I have these keys:
> 
> int /system/proxy/type:
>     Default: 0
>         None (0)
>         HTTP (1)
>         WinGate (2)
>         SOCKS4 (3)
>         SOCKS5 (4)

Maybe use a string here instead of a pseudo enum?

> I'm hoping to reach a conclusion on what keys to use and who installs
> the schema soon, so any opinions are more than welcome.
> 
> (I'll write a capplet for gnomecc2 that changes these settings after the
> above issues are settled :-), since what I'm doing would require that as
> well.)

Sounds good, though I think the idea of capplets has gone away in favor
of instant-apply dialogs.  You've prolly noticed that, though. (-;

> The library is GLib/GObject 2.0,
> [http://jimbob.myip.org/software/libgtcpsocket-1.0.tar.bz2]. Obviously,
> it's not finished yet.

I think it's fine to ship the schemas with this tarball.  If it moves to
libgnome or something in the future, we can move the schemas then.

-Jonathan