Re: global proxy settings

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 19Dec2001 04:45PM (-0500), Alex Graveley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 15:19, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > Heya,
> > There was a lost mail [1] about this ages and ages ago from Colm. It's
> > probably much more extravagant than we currently need short term, but it
> > might be a good start of what is involved -
> >  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gconf-list/2001-June/msg00137.html
> > Currently /system/gnome-vfs/[use-http-proxy, http-proxy-host] is being
> > used so it's probably a good idea to stick with that.
> 
> After rereading Colm's mail I am reminded that these things are very
> much location/active-profile specific, and they should stored as such.  
> 
> Is Gnome2 going to include the Location Manager from XST?  This seems to
> be the only viable solution to the location/profile problem.

In my ideal world, location management would be transparent to the
app, and would change these settings in the canonical GConf locations
for them as appropriate. Is that possible with XST location
management?

 - Maciej