Hello everyone :) I had been hanging around on IRC channel #trojita since some time and wish to start contributing to FOSS from Trojita.
This task of using system proxies was available but unclaimed at this time's GCI. I figured we can use QNetworkProxyFactory::systemProxyForQuery() [static].<http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtnetwork/qnetworkproxyfactory.html#systemProxyForQuery> This is for the case when we want to have a per-account checkbox saying "Use system proxy settings". But, this function takes too long on windows. As Jan suggested in the IRC convo, this call can be offloaded to a separate thread, but we wanted more opinion on this matter. So, a separate thread? Or is it okay to have a particular platform (windows) to take longer, and keep the application single threaded? I am starting working on the first patch now while this discussion reaches a decision. At this point I would really like to thank Jan for helping a noob like me at IRC :) Regards, Karan Luthra [IRC: luthrak] [About Me <http://about.me/luthrakaran>] <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtnetwork/qnetworkproxyfactory.html#systemProxyForQuery>
