Re: gnome-vfs & HTTP proxy settings

[John Spray <jcspray icculus org>]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 15:39 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > The motivation is to allow my application to let the user set a proxy
> > even if they are not in a Gnome environment (and thus don't have the
> > gconf settings daemon running).  Would I be better off with libcurl for
> > this kind of flexibility?
> 
> gconfd should autostart. Isn't it?

Okay, now I'm seeing that gconfd is included in libgconf, which is a
dependency of libgnomevfs, so it should be safe to go via gconf to set
up the proxy.

I guess this approach probably isn't ever going to be portable to
windows, but that's a challenge for another day.

Thanks.

John