On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:34:58 -0400 > seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
