[Kde-hardware-devel] Draft for a GSoC idea. nm statistics and auto proxy switching

[Sebastian Kügler]

Hi,

On Friday, April 19, 2013 01:02:35 Eugenio Cano-Manuel Mendoza wrote:
> My name is Eugenio Cano-Manuel. I want to take this GSoC opportunity to
> make KDE better. I'm sending you a draft of an idea I want to collaborate
> on during the GSoC period, it's basically to collect usage data from
> network connections and to implement an automatic proxy switcher. It is a
> draft, so if you don't mind, please review it and give me some feedback so
> I can complete it.

To be honest, this sounds like total overkill. NM should just be able to have 
a configured proxy per connection, and switch proxies when it's connected. No 
further UI, no guessing, not stats collection -- these things sound like maybe 
a fun research project, but not really useful to a user.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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