Re: galeon2 proxy settings

In KDE, the proxy config dialog has an option to tell it to use the env
variables


Le ven 15/11/2002 à 09:38, Eivind Tagseth a écrit :
> * Langdale, Philip <[email protected]> [021114 23:59]:
> > Yeah, this is another thing to worry about.
> > 
> > I want to add support for the standard env vars HTTP_PROXY etc at the very 
> > least, so that there is at least one sensible way to control these. marco is/was
> > of the opinion that non-gnome2 users can go take a short walk off a long pier 
> > which is why there is currently no other way to do this. I'd prefer to be more
> > accomodating, but it's also valid to argue that it's pretty stupid to have
> > proxy prefs in galeon when gnome has them, and it would be really wierd if
> > galeon had ui but the actual prefs were the same one gnome controlled too.
> 
> This is going to cause problems regardless of which solution is chosen
> as far as I can see.  The standard way to set up a proxy before Gnome 2
> has been env vars for a very long time.  Most likely, some people will
> keep using non-gnome applications even after Gnome 2 is out, and this
> will cause unexpected behaviour.  I really can't understand why Gnome had
> to reinvent the wheel here, and use the env vars as everyone else.
> 
> I guess using the env vars if galeon failed to fetch the gnome settings
> would be ok?  Can you actually detect such a failure?  It would be bad
> if turning off proxying in gnome would case galeon to use your env var
> settings...
> 
> 
> 
> Eivind
> 
> 
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