On 5 May 2008, at 02:16, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 17:45 -0700, Brett wrote: >> Thanks guys, that worked fine. >> >> Note to dev's however...... I think this needs to either have its >> own proxy configuration dialog tab or work off the gnome prefs one. >> >> A large majority of folks these days work from behind a http proxy. >> There is no point in putting a tool on the gnome menu's that, to be >> effective, needs to be run from command line after creating >> environment variables. >> >> just my 2cp worth ;-) > > AFAIR, setting the proxy in System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy > will add http_proxy to the environment on login.
Maybe true, but I'd agree that's not really good enough. If you set a proxy, you want it to be usable immediately-- I know that's not always possible, but in this case I'd have though the IPS GUI should be able to detect changes in the GNOME proxy settings easily enough. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
