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

[Simon Schampijer]

On 01/18/2012 03:59 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 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

The Feature page [1] does not say much how the Feature is implemented 
and no patch has been sent, yet.

If OLPC-AU has been telling their users to set the proxy via GNOME 
before that is useful information. Other deployments might have set a 
proxy in the build itself?

Regards,
    Simon

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Proxy_configuration