Re: Mockup of the GNOME proxy dialog

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

Are you familiar with the thread starting here?

  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2001-December/msg00084.html

Also, is anyone with GNOME looking at implementing this?

  http://www.zeroconf.org/


Cheers,
Greg Merchan

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:22:15PM +0200, Gaute Lindkvist wrote:
> Ok, I've been trying to weazel out some ideas about how to reconstruct the
> GNOME proxy dialog, and here is my first suggestion. My current main
> objectives with it, is that the disclosure triangle is not part of GTK+
> yet, and is currently implemented as a cut and paste hack job in the
> run dialog and the search tool.
> 
> Someone pointed out that that there should probably be a "No proxy for" as
> well. I.e. hosts to try directly.
> 
> The reason for using a tree view here, is that there are four options
> (HTTP, SSL, FTP, Socks) all
> of which use exactly the same elements (URI and port), and there should
> probably be a username and password element here as well. Although I'm not
> sure which items this apply to. There could also possibly be additional
> protocols available for using proxies later on.
> 
> Gaute
>