Re: [Synaptic-devel] Automatic Proxy setting

[Michael Vogt]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 01:29:39AM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > It would be nice if synaptic would respect the Gnome Proxy Setting which 
> > you can select under Desktop Preferences. Now I always have to change 
> > the proxy setting of synaptic depending if I'm at work or at home.
> > The GNOME Proxy setting can handle automatic proxy settings and if it 
> > doesn't find these it assumes that the PC is connected directly to the 
> > internet
> 
> Yes, this is a common feature request. It's actually not hard to
> implement, but I'm unsure about the user interface. What do you think
> about something like this:
> [ ] No proxy
> [ ] Use proxy settings from /etc/apt/apt.conf
> [ ] Use gnome proxy settings
> [ ] Manual proxy settings

I hacked a prototype of my idea and I noticed that it's actually more
difficult than I expected at first. 

1. synaptic needs to run as root. So if you set a proxy in gnome
settings under your normal user, gconf will not have those values
available for root. 

2. I don't know how to get the values that gnome gets from the
autoconfiguration proxy method (manual method is no problem).


2) is not a big deal, but 1) is really tricky. Does anyone have a good
idea? 

thanks,
 Michael