Re: Global Proxy Settings

[Dick Porter <dick acm org>]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:48:05AM -0600, James M. Cape wrote:
> On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 07:39, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > 	It might be interesting to look into basing your socket wraper library
> > on top of linc - have you considered that ?
> 
> Looking at the README, HTML docs, and headers, I *think* it's too
> high-level for what I'm doing.

Another network wrapper library is libgnet. From dpkg:

 Gnet is a simple networking library. It is
 written in C, object-oriented, and built upon glib.  It is intended to be
 small, fast, easy-to-use, and easy to port.  The interface is similar to the
 interface for Java's network library.

Having not looked at the source of your library or this one recently, I've
no idea how much overlap there is, but there may be some potential for a
combined effort.

Global network configuration was one of the things I've been looking for in
GNOME apps for a long time.  Another good candidate would be items like the
user's email address(es) (I really dont want to have to enter it in every
single app that requests it), and other email settings such as smtp and
pop/imap servers.  I'm sure there are many other config options that can
go here.

- Dick