On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 03:58:02PM +0100, Lionel Dricot wrote:
>
> > Do you believe it worth a Gnome Goal ? Or do you think that individual
> bug
> > reports are enough for that. ?
>
> Not exactly sure if it is a 'bug' or more a request for enhancement.
> Anyway, bugs aren't solved because they're filed. However, don't think
> it is a 'goal' as intended with the GNOME goal wiki site.
>
> Enhancement... It looks like you are not using a proxy. When you are forced
to use one and that most applications behave in strange ways (or doesn't
work as expected), it's definitely a bug.  But you cannot understand if you
don't use a proxy.

A few years ago, I had never used a proxy. I developped a little application
for Gnome with no proxy support. I received a patch. I marked the bug as
"enhancement" and it tooks me a while to get it included. Because I had no
idea. Now that I'm using a proxy at work, I realize that my application was
completely unusable behind a proxy. That's for the little story. I really
think good proxy support is an huge asset. (and given the fact the proxy
support in Windows is a shame, it's one more strong point for us in the
corporate world) but not proxy support at all is a bug (and an important
one).

Anyway, if I'm 100% sure that we need good proxy support, I don't know if it
worth a Gnome Goal, that's why I'm asking for advices here. And thank you
(and all others) for your replies, it's really interesting.


Regards,

Lionel
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