Bugzilla – Bug 120024
Proxy environment Variables
Last modified: 2006-09-07 11:41:18 UTC
KDE (and perhaps other apps as well) can get its proxy configuration from environment variables. It would be very comfortable if YaST2 could set these variables if a proxy was specified there, and the KDE default setting should be set to get the data from the variables. So if using KDE I don´t need to set the proxy twicw, and I can use the "profiles" option of YaST2
Yast does set them. See /etc/sysconfig/proxy and /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.profiles. What should be improved?
Great. As said above IMHO the KDE default setup should be configured to use the variables. Then I have one central place for setting the vars (YaST2).
Can KDE use the sysconfig proxy settings?
According to the manual KDE can set its proxy settings by the environment variables. Why do you need sysconfig? YaST does set the variables, if KDE uses them the problem is solved, isn´t it?
does it work for you if you add . /etc/sysconfig/proxy to the beginning of /opt/kde3/bin/startkde ?
Please do read my previous posts *g It´s not about something not working but about settings KDEs default value (on an installed system) to use that variables, as it isn´t by default. This has afaik nothing to do with sysconfig.
Yup, KDE can set the proxy configuration to use the environment variables. see attached screenshot. Does that solve your problem?
Created attachment 97629 [details] Proxy settings screenshot
Again (as in comment #6), if you are serious about this (and other) bug reports, please do read the description and comments. While I really appreciate that you accept bug reports from your userbase I´ve seen this problem with many of my reports. It seems you are missunderstanding completely what I mean here. This is also because different developers (on your side) try to tackle a bug, instead of one. The bug is about changing the KDE default value.
Michael: part of is caused by you not understanding what sysconfig is for: that's the way yast sets the environment variables and Dirk's question in #5 is about if adding these variables to KDE's set of environment variables are enough. And from what I understand #6, it's already there - as you claim changing KDE's defaults is enough (no-one of us has a proxy, so we're beginners too :) So we'll change the defaults, it's also getting rid of some parts of Suseconfig.kde - which we want to get rid of.
Yeah, that´s exactly what I meant :) I know that proxy is a difficult area, because not many people have a proxy. Unfortunately I have one in my university network, and I filed over 20 bugs in various distros and apps by now for making support for this better. So thanks for making this easier for proxy users :)
I changed it to be preconfigured but the control module doesn't really like empty variables. So this will have to be changed for sure
ok, all changes are in (Factory). I didn't have a chance to test it though - but everything not working now is a bug :)