From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from azsmga102.ch.intel.com (mga12.intel.com [143.182.124.36]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD68E0030F for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:04:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-gx0-f180.google.com ([209.85.161.180]) by mga14.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 03 Feb 2012 09:04:37 -0800 Received: by ggnr1 with SMTP id r1so1919497ggn.25 for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:04:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.179.6 with SMTP id dc6mr3702874igc.15.1328288675786; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:04:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.10.192] (c-71-236-172-220.hsd1.or.comcast.net. [71.236.172.220]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e17sm5320436ibe.0.2012.02.03.09.04.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:04:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F2C13A1.2050802@intel.com> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:04:33 -0800 From: Scott Garman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111229 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <4F2B057D.6000905@linux.intel.com> <4F2B07BA.1040204@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <4F2B07BA.1040204@linux.intel.com> Subject: Re: Hob 1.2 design - Settings dialogue X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:04:46 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Scott Garman Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project Intel Open Source Technology Center