[Dextrose] PATCH: export http_proxy from .gconf

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 19 April 2011 02:38, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> This is from jvonau:
>
> https://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xo-au/repository/revisions/master/entry/olpc-os-builder/session.diff
>
> It would make a good addition to both DX2 and DX3. Please, apply.

Cool that you're using our patches :D

Honestly, I consider this to be a hack (albeit, an extraordinarily
useful one). What we have done is make the proxy as set in gconf also
available as the http_proxy environment variable, so that Sugar can
use it.

I think that longer term, it would make more sense for Sugar to use
gconf directly for its proxy settings.



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