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

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> 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"
>>>>
>>>> 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?

I'd often thought that we should mirror the gnome settings both in
look and what it sets simply due to ensure the same operability in
both environments and if you change it in one its reflected in the
other.

Peter