Re: Hob 1.2 design - Settings dialogue

[Scott Garman <scott.a.garman@intel.com>]

On 02/02/2012 02:01 PM, Joshua Lock wrote:
>
>
> 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.

Will sites.conf setup proxy settings for git, subversion, and cvs?

The proxy situation is a mess under Linux. This is likely to be a 
non-trivial problem.

http://www.yoctoproject.org/blogs/sgarman/2011/proxy-problem

Scott

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Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center