Sounds like a simple fix could work around the proxy issue nicely in a way that users would understand. If Taverna pings the net on first startup and can't contact anything, should it automatically pop up the proxy settings window before going any further?
Begin forwarded message: > From: Stian Soiland-Reyes <[email protected]> > Date: 21 October 2010 10:05:48 GMT+01:00 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Taverna-users] problem starting taverna 2.2.0 > Reply-To: [email protected] > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 23:00, Dan Kortschak > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've resolved the situation - it was due to proxy settings (we have real >> difficulties with this here). > > Good to hear you managed to resolve this. > > Did you figure out at what point Taverna was hanging in the startup > due to the missing proxy settings, getting that stack trace? > > We do have a user interface to set the proxy settings, but I guess > it's not much use if you can't start up first.. > > -- > Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team > School of Computer Science > The University of Manchester > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada > $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing > Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > taverna-users mailing list > [email protected] > [email protected] > Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk > Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/about/contact-us/ -- Richard Holland, BSc MBCS Operations and Delivery Director, Eagle Genomics Ltd T: +44 (0)1223 654481 ext 3 | E: [email protected] http://www.eaglegenomics.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ taverna-hackers mailing list [email protected] Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/about/contact-us/ Developers Guide: http://www.taverna.org.uk/developers/
