[desktop-discuss] Using Proxy Preferences dialogs from NWAM

[Ann Sunhachawee]

Hello desktop-discuss - (please cc me on replies, as I'm not on this alias)

I'm a User Experience designer in the Network AutoMagic (NWAM) project 
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/ and our goal is to simplify and 
automate network configuration, which includes things like Proxy 
configuration, via a GUI on Solaris.

On nwam-discuss we've been discussing the possibility of using some of 
the proxy configuration dialogs Solaris already has (see screenshots: 
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/stateoftheart/SolarisExpress/) By 
using, I would expect being able to launch the proxy config dialogs from 
the NWAM GUI.

NWAM has a feature of being able to switch "Environments", where 
environment contains settings such as proxies and name services. So you 
can switch between say your Work environment which has work proxies, and 
Home environment, which may not use proxies at all.

Given that, can NWAM use the Netwprok Proxy Preferences dialog to be 
able to edit proxies, but not actually apply them immediately?

Also, a different question, I notice in Solaris 10 that the location and 
name of this similar dialog is different than on Solaris Express. The 
name is "Network Proxy Configuration" and it's located under Preferences 
 > Desktop Preferences > Proxy Configuration. Is the naming and location 
currently in Solaris Express going to be the final going forward?

Thanks!
Ann