[Psi-Devel] Feature Request: Proxy management

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On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 07:08:52PM +0100, Micha? Jaz?owiecki wrote:
> Welcome,
> 
> 
> It would be nice to see an option to change connection proxies from one 
> place. Today, it's more that an nuisance to change connection proxies 
> for all the accounts. An example may explain that better:
> 
> Imagine that I use Psi on a notebook and travel with it between two 
> different networks, one with proxy, other without it. I have configured 
> proxy for all my accounts and in order to migrate Psi from one network 
> to another, I have to:
> 
> 1. Stop Psi from connecting.
> 2. Open Psi|Manage accounts.
> 3. Select each of my accounts and
>     a) Click Modify button.
>     b) Go to Connection tab.
>     c) Select proxy from drop down list.
>     d) Press Save button.
> 4. Press Close button.
> 5. Connect Psi.
> 
> This means that I need 4+4N mouse clicks (where N is a number of 
> accounts I use) to change proxies.
> 

Yes, that's clearly a pain when proxies are needed


> 
> What I would like to see is an additional place to manage connection 
> proxies - like a dialog similar to Manage accounts dialog, with a list 
> of all accounts and a drop down list for each of the accounts to quickly 
> select a proxy (or turn it off). A global setup for a connection proxy 
> (which would change proxies for all accounts at once) would be nice, too.
> 

I don't really see a usecase for the general "wire different accounts to
different proxies" usecase. In what situation would that be needed?
I'd assume in the mobil case you want all accounts to use the proxy that's
working in the current network. But is there a usecase where you would want
to change proxies around more when traveling?

Maybe something simpler, some kind of default proxy setting that centrally
controllable would be a better fix for the problem?
btw, you can currently already give all accounts the same proxy and change
that proxy's setting when changing networks. Not nice but maybe a
"redirect" proxy type would be how fast proxy changing can be implemented.

 - Martin H.