On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Evan Martin <e...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> You must use switches for a pretty common pattern ("separate profile
>> that goes through my work proxy") and I believe that's been wontfixed
>> in the past, so I'm not entirely unsympathetic to Mohamed's
>> suggestion, but I think Peter is right in principle.
>
> The proxy case is definitely a case where it affects a small number of
> people but is a real need for that group.
> My impression is that on Mac this is less of an issue because you can set up
> separate Locations in the network settings (?). On Windows, though, you're
> stuck with command-line options. I wish I had an elegant solution for this
> that wasn't Firefox' "my network settings are entirely divorced from the
> rest of your system".
> I would hesitantly support some sort of network settings dialog that by
> default is all dimmed out with a checked checkbox at the top saying "use
> system settings". Don't know that I could convince the UI leads to go for
> that, though.
> PK
Was there not talk about implementing a special-case extensions API
for proxy changing, to enable a FoxyProxy-like extension, and letting
that deal with the issue so that the actual Chrome UI didn't need
polluting, and that small but significant group of users could be
catered for?
See:
http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/design-documents/extensions/proxy-proposal
http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions/browse_thread/thread/e6f606f11c40d36c?pli=1
http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions/browse_thread/thread/ceba26ca9e2f6a78/9a6f2da71084d437
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