Berend > your idea is great and I perfectly agree with your proposition of putting proxy support in the network-manager. (To me, it makes also much sense to put the smtp server in it).
I strongly suggest that your repport your idea upstream against network manager. (Seriously, do it. I really appreciate your idea)
Anyway, this is more a mid/long term solution. I cannot even hope to see this in Ubuntu before 9.10, at best.
In the meantime, I think there's a need for a "quick fix" that let synaptic use the gnome proxy setting.
Berend > your idea is great and I perfectly agree with your proposition of putting proxy support in the network-manager. (To me, it makes also much sense to put the smtp server in it).
I strongly suggest that your repport your idea upstream against network manager. (Seriously, do it. I really appreciate your idea)
Anyway, this is more a mid/long term solution. I cannot even hope to see this in Ubuntu before 9.10, at best.
In the meantime, I think there's a need for a "quick fix" that let synaptic use the gnome proxy setting.