Re: Proxy seetings and other desktop issues

[Hassan Aurag <h_aurag yahoo com>]

 I fully agree with the capplet thing. Set it there and forget about it.

It also has to be one of those automagic gnome services, exactly like
remembering position of toolbars and menus and the rest.....



> 
> 
> Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> > 
> > Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk> writes:
> > 
> > > The only thing I wonder: I came across a mention of the "environment
> > > variables http_proxy and ftp_proxy" recently. Um. In a bug report, of
> > > all things :) http://bugs.gnome.org/db/75/7503.html mentions them. I
> > > have never met them. I cannot find them in 'man bash'. I don't know
> > > what introduced them. Lynx has something like them in the lynx.cfg file,
> > > but I thought they must be Lynx-specific.
> > 
> > In addition, arena and wget support them (and no_proxy, BTW).  On SuSE
> > Linux you can provide values for these variables via /etc/rc.config and
> > they'll end up in an /etc/profile component.
> > 
> > GNOME should try to honor these settings.
> 
> 
> Just FYI--
> 
> GNOME-VFS and Nautilus are currently using a GConf setting,
> "/system/gnome-vfs/http-proxy" for HTTP proxy settings.  Nautilus also
> uses this setting for embedded Mozilla.  In addition, the Nautilus first
> time druid examines both the http_proxy environment variable noted above
> as well as looking for Netscape 4.x prefrerences in an attempt to
> auto-configure the user's http proxy.  Unfortunately, none of this work
> has been done for FTP (we just haven't had time).
> 
> Personally, I'd like to see many of these user-level network settings be
> moved into a capplet and have GNOME applications retrieve them from
> GConf.
> 
> Mike Fleming
> 
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