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On 02/02/12 13:51, Joshua Lock wrote:
> Hi Belen,
>
> Sorry this is so long, I don't know how to turn off my verbose switch.
>
> On page 4 you mention Shane's intention to have proxy settings in the UI
> - I just want to point out that this is usually an OS level
> configuration and we should be wary about how we implement it.
> I'd suggest we go so far as to just have a "Change system proxy
> settings" button which launches the OS's network configuration settings.
>
> Of course, this opens us up to potential issues around supporting the
> multitude of available network configuration tools on Linux but I'd
> suggest we start with a lowest common denominator approach and have the
> program behave intelligently.
>
> Explicitly we can detect whether the binary gnome-control-center and the
> so file /usr/lib64/control-center-1/panels/libnetwork.so exist (being
> clever about that path, too) and if so we can execute:
>
> "gnome-control-center display network"
>
> Which will display the network configuration (and therefore proxy)
> settings for stock Fedora and Ubuntu desktops.
>

The above is all moot if we're just going to configure the proxy through 
sites.conf as per Saul's recent mail.

Cheers,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Lock
         Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
         Intel Open Source Technology Centre