[Usability]Re: Proxy capplet

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 21:13, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 20:02, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The current proxy capplet is rather incomplete, since it only does HTTP
> > proxy. It would be good if it could be extended to handle FTP and SSL
> > proxies, socks host, and autoconfiguration URL as well. We need those to
> > support proxying in Galeon properly, and gnome-vfs/nautilus should
> > surely use them as well.  I'm willing to do the code, and have already
> > made some UI mockups:
> > 
> > http://nl.linux.org/~jorn/Files/capplet.png
> > http://nl.linux.org/~jorn/Files/details.png
> > 
> > There are some problems though: 
> > - User/password. These may be different for each server, so we can't
> > have a global u/p setting. 99% of the proxy users prolly have these the
> > same though, but I think that for system configuration we'd better
> > support everything. In my mockups I have moved this to a details dialog,
> > since we can't really fit two entries extra per server into the dialog.
> > - GConf keys. Right now, the proxy prefs reside in
> > /system/http_proxy/host etc. Where do we keep the new keys?
> > /system/ftp_proxy/host? That would bloat the /system dir too much IMHO.
> > On the other hand, /system/http_proxy/ftp_host would be sucky too. I
> > think the best would be to have something like /system/proxy/http/host,
> > /system/proxy/ftp/host, etc, but this would break backward
> > compatibility.
> > 
> > It would be really cool if this could be done before the 2.2 UI freeze,
> > so that we can remove the proxy prefs from Galeon.
> > 
> > Comments? Suggestions?
> 
> IMO, "SSL Proxy" is a bad name for https. "Secure HTTP" would make more
> sense, you could then put the https proxy settings under
> /system/http_proxy and that would only add /system/socks_proxy to
> /system, not so bad.

True, Secure HTTP is a better name. However, it doesn't solve the
/system prob since we also have ftp proxy.. and an autoconfigure url to
put somewhere.

Cheers

> 
> Cheers
> 
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> /Bastien Nocera
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