On 23 January 2012 13:02, Gary Martin <garycmar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sridhar,
>
> On 23 Jan 2012, at 01:08, Sridhar Dhanapalan <srid...@laptop.org.au> wrote:
>
>> On 19 January 2012 21:16, Simon Schampijer <si...@schampijer.de> wrote:
>>> If OLPC-AU has been telling their users to set the proxy via GNOME before
>>> that is useful information. Other deployments might have set a proxy in the
>>> build itself?
>>
>> To confirm, we do tell users to configure their proxy using the GNOME
>> tool (gnome-network-properties). Switching to GNOME just to do this is
>> tiresome, so we have a Sugar activity launcher for it. This is a
>> workaround, and we would prefer a native Sugar CP applet.
>
> Do you think this functionality could be folded into the Network CP UI or are 
> there a heap of inputs? We could make better use of Network CP horizontal 
> space regarding text blocks, and gain some vertical space to reduce potential 
> scrolling overflows for adding an extra field with text description.

I think it could be folded, provided that no features are lost. We
need the entire feature set of gnome-network-properties to be
available, with the possible exception of the Location picker
(although that would be nice too).

Sridhar
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