[Ayatana] Proxy in the Networking Interface

[Raymond Barbour <xraya4t@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Matthew,
I was looking through https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Networking and I was wondering if there should be a section added to show and maintain the global proxy settings.

My thoughts were to show a Proxy section with an On-Off button with a list of available proxies lists below with a tick to indicate which proxy is in use. From a usability perspective it would be useful to associate a proxy with a connection, e.g. Wireless-Ubuntu-Battersea will use Home, Wireless-Ubuntu will use work. WIred connections would be slightly more complex to auto choose but it may be possible to identify a wired network by its gateway or dns servers. Proxies would then be set-up via the network settings section. Also when connecting to a new wireless network you could be prompted to add a new proxy or specify that this connection does not require a proxy.
Raymond

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 08:19 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> Thanks for this report. I'll tackle this issue when designing the new
> networking interface. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Networking>
>
> Cheers
> - -- 
> Matthew Paul Thomas
> http://mpt.net.nz/

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