[Sugar-devel] Fwd: #841 UNSP: SoaS should support using a proxy server

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:32 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:59:48PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > You might want to try setting the gnome proxy server settings as I
> > believe (this theory is untested) xulrunner and telepathy should
> > recognise those settings. you can get that by running
> > gnome-network-properties which is part of the control-center package
> > (no idea off hand if that is in SoaS by default), [...]
>
> Tested on OLPC XO-1.5 builds ... you can run gnome-network-properties or
> gnome-control-panel from Terminal, change the proxy server settings, and
> then run Browse and the proxy server is used.
>
> gnome-network-properties appears as a window over the Terminal and
> includes a close button, and Sugar provides a border control to close or
> stop.
>
> gnome-control-panel doesn't include an explicit graphical close or stop
> feature; it relies on the window manager, and Sugar doesn't provide that
> action visually.  So to escape from it use Control/Q in the window, or
> Control/C on the Terminal.
>

I presume this just sets gconf keys so it might be useful functionality to
add to the sugar network control panel so it can be set easier.

Peter
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