[Adium-devl] Global proxy settings?

[Evan Schoenberg]

Viksit,

I'd like a bit more information on why the systemwide network  
preference is insufficient for what you (and others in a similar  
situation) want to do.  There's a fairly robust network Locations  
ability in OS X, which carries proxy information with each  
location... why does this need to be implemented at the Adium level?

Cheers,
Evan

On Feb 28, 2007, at 11:26 PM, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:

> This sounds reasonable to me.
>
> Your best bet would be to take the source (1.0.x or trunk if  
> daring), hack away at adding it (feel free to ping this list for  
> any help you need along the way), and when finished ask for a  
> review of the work for inclusion as a submitted patch.
>
> - brian 'bgannin' ganninger
>
> On Feb 28, 2007, at 9:45 PM, Viksit Gaur wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Using Adium, I realized that there doesn't seem to be a place to  
>> set up a global proxy which would be used by all accounts.  
>> Instead, each account when edited has the option of having a proxy  
>> set.
>> IMHO, this is a very tiring task if you're the kind of person who  
>> switches between networks and VPNs with different proxy servers.  
>> This is highlighted even further when you have 6 different  
>> accounts like I do. I haven't even tried to set these proxy  
>> settings manually, but I would appreciate input from the list  
>> whether this assumption is correct.
>>
>> There does seem to be an option for "Systemwide settings" - I'm  
>> not quite sure how you set that, but my guess is through the  
>> Systems Prefs -> Networking menu. This is however impractical in  
>> certain cases, since there might be 2 proxies available - one for  
>> a VPN based connection, the other somewhere else.
>>
>> If yes, I'd like to propose a feature request:
>> - A global proxy settings dialog box in the main Adium Preferences  
>> (perhaps, in the Advanced tab)
>> - Automatic fill of each account proxy from this "Global Proxy"  
>> setting
>> - A list of "Saved Proxies" which could be selected using a  
>> minimal number of clicks once input
>>
>> Of course, needless to say, I would be interested in contributing  
>> this to Adium :)
>>
>> RFC.
>>
>> -- 
>> Cheers,
>> vIkSiT
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