Re: system wide proxy settings

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr gmx net>]

Hi Michael.

On 30.07.2008 08:08, Michael Vogt wrote:
> I would like to add support to gnome-network-preferences to be able to
> set the proxy systemwide (for e.g. legacy applications).
>
> In order to do that, I plan to have a python dbus backend on the
> systembus that uses policykit for the authorization. If the user
> selects in the UI that he wants to make make the setting a system
> default,

And you'd label this button "Unbreak legacy apps"? Adding UI for
this seems like a very bad idea to me. If you can fix legacy apps,
do it, but don't push the question into the user's face.

> the proxy settings would be passed to this dbus service and
> writes /etc/environment (and /etc/apt/apt.conf on ubuntu/debian
> systems).
>
> Is this something that could get accepted upstream (assuming the
> implementation is ok)?

We have gnome-settings-daemon for handling settings. It sounds
to me like you'd want to write a (distro-specific) g-s-d module
that handles this, and since g-s-d is quite modular these days
it doesn't even have to go upstream (unless you can provide
reasons for why it should, of course, but I didn't see any in
your mail).

Jens