On 01/23/2012 03:02 AM, Gary Martin 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.
--Gary
Hi Gary,
under GNOME the control panel section looks like this: under the Network
section there is an option 'Network Proxy' [1]. By default this is set
to 'None'. If you select 'Manual' in the drop-down the additional fields
are added [2], if you select 'Automatic' you can enter a configuration
URL [3], there is some explanation text below.
Adding a section 'Network Proxy' in the 'Network' section in Sugar [4]
does sound sensible to me. We have the sections auto-scroll in Sugar, so
this should not cause any issue.
If this is the way to go, is it possible to mock this up? Not to mean to
put time-pressure on that, but Feature Freeze is in one week. So we
should hurry a bit on that, since we have to do design/code/review. The
code part seem to be mainly done already [5], would need to be adjusted,
though.
Regards,
Simon
[1] http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/designs/proxy_1.png
[2] http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/designs/proxy_2.png
[3] http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/designs/proxy_3.png
[4] http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/designs/sugar_proxy.png
[5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Proxy_configuration
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