GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 668448
Feature Request: Improved Proxy Configuration
Last modified: 2013-01-31 08:39:55 UTC
Currently GNOME has a small interface on the Network configurations to setup proxies. I find the current solution not much user friendly in specific situations: * User has the need of having several proxy patterns, examples: - $dayjob network uses a proxy; - home network doesn't use a proxy; - university network does use a proxy (different from $dayjob); - etc. The current offer to manage proxies in GNOME is very limited and it could be improved to improve users experience, for example: - Ability to setup proxies for specific networks; - Interface tools to change/swap proxy patterns (ex: through the user menu); I leave this idea, a raw one, to your consideration, in the hope that it can be evaluated and implemented in the future. As a GNOME user, it would be very interesting to have a quick proxy pattern managing tool/UI component to handle this situations.
See bug 640475 about per-connection proxy, bug 664901 about profiles. Duplicating against the more generic one. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 664901 ***