Re: galeon2 proxy settings

Christian Rose <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
fre 2002-11-15 klockan 09.38 skrev Eivind Tagseth:
> 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?

If you add environment variable detection in the gnome proxy settings
rather than use it for a fallback in a specific application, you fix the
actual problem rather than just one instance of the symptoms.


Christian




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