Uniform Proxy Settings

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 12:13 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:34:58 -0400
> > seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > Yes, but it is no problem for yum optionally check this settings if
> >> > it is available in system, right?
> >>
> >> Rather than instrument all apps so they can follow all desktop
> >> systems' mechanism for setting a proxy, wouldn't it make more sense
> >> to have a common way that all the desktops set?
> >>
> >
> > .... like http_proxy environment variable that everyone and their dog
> > (except firefox) uses ?
> 
> The problem is that to change an environment variable you have to log
> out, which is a pretty sucky user experience.

Dan Winship did some research into desktop wide sharing of various
http-related things, including proxies. See
http://live.gnome.org/LibSoup/DesktopWideHttp


Matthias