On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 12:13 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > 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. Dan Winship did some research into desktop wide sharing of various http-related things, including proxies. See http://live.gnome.org/LibSoup/DesktopWideHttp Matthias -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
