[Gaim-devel] Re: [Gaim-commits] CVS: gaim/src proxy.c,1.137,1.138 gtkprefs.c,1.292,1.293 util.h,1.82,1.83 util.c,1.368,1.369 gtkutils.c,1.121,1.122

[Stu T. <st...@no...>]

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 16:12 -0700, Sean Egan wrote:
> Log Message:
> Use GNOME proxy preferences.
> Works For Me. People are going to go crazy.

Crazy is probably an understatement.

Why has this stuff gone into core and not just Gtk UI? Anyone who
implements an alternative UI (ncurses, Qt, whatever) is going to have
this forced on them.

It falls back to gaim_global_proxy_get_info() if anything is not set,
but there's no way for a user to configure what this uses.

There is no way to configure a SOCKS4 or SOCKS5 proxy that I can see,
and if the GNOME preferences are set to automatic proxy configuration it
won't work.

It'd be nice if we could have such integration, but I fear the
differences between GNOME's proxy support and Gaim's are too great for
it to be realistic.

Regards,


Stu.