[Sugar-devel] [FEATURES][DESIGN] Network proxy configuration

[Jerry Vonau]

On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 16:52 +0100, Simon Schampijer wrote: 
> On 21/11/11 21:27, Anish Mangal wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > I'd like to propose "Network proxy configuration in Sugar"
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> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Proxy_configuration
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> > Anish Mangal
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> Hi Anish,
> 
> there have been discussions [1] on how this Feature works when used with 
> the existing proxy configurations already used in the field. Can you 
> bring some light into that?
> 
> Regards,
>     Simon



I'm a little confused by the question, this sugar-UI tool stores it's
settings in the same gconf keys that gnome-network-properties uses, that
is all. You still need to have $http_proxy set for sugar's environment
and is solved by reading the gconf key then exporting the variable in
sugar-session.


Jerry