[Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] Browse activity proxy settings

[Jerry Vonau]

On 16 November 2012 02:29, Ajay Garg <ajay at activitycentral.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Jerry Vonau <jerry at laptop.org.au> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> I'm wondering why this feature[1] did not proceed,
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> You mean proceeding for upstreaming?
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Hi Ajay,

No not really, this functionally was proposed and accepted as a feature
upstream of Dextrose, but development/integration stalled at that point.

Jerry



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>> was there some fundamental flaw with the code or was it just a
>> disagreement over the location within the UI? When this feature was first
>> proposed in February there was some debate on its location within
>> control-panel, as part of the 'network' applet or as a stand alone applet
>> like what Aleksey implemented for sweets[2]. Being able to set the system
>> proxy from within sugar without having to rely on gnome would be a gain for
>> all those deployments that need to be able to set proxy settings easily in
>> a sugar only environment.
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>> Jerry
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>> 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Proxy_Settings
>> 2. http://git.sugarlabs.org/desktop/sugar-proxy-plugin
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>> On 12 November 2012 23:33, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
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>>> 2012/11/11 Ariel Calzada <ariel at activitycentral.com>:
>>> > Hi!
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>>> > I would like to know if there's a way to make Browse activity use PROXY
>>> > SETTINGS. I tried configuring proxy settings in "My settings/Network"
>>> with
>>> > no luck.
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>>> The feature was about to be done for the previous cycle, but was
>>> abandoned.
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>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Proxy_Settings
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>>> After that, Browse will just get the settings from the system.
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> Regards,
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> Ajay Garg
> Dextrose Developer
> Activity Central: http://activitycentral.com
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