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Yeah, so I can no longer disillusion myself. Either I’m gonna start contributing code to Gnome or I’m gonna start poking my eyes out. I’ve been living on the fringe here for a little too long. Plus, if I want to go to Guadec, which I do, then I want to actually have contributed something useful. It is always very hard to figure out where to start. I’m deciding to start by implementing proxy support in the gnome panel applets that need web access. That way I’ll be able to get my weather information and other nice things when I’m behind the proxy at work. So, I’ve set up a web proxy (squid) on the server I have here at home and I’m going through it right now. I just compiled gnome-applets from CVS and I’m going to try and add support for this and supply a patch. We’ll see how far I get. It would be pretty nice to get this working because I hate not knowing the weather at work. I guess we do have windows, but who has the time for that? Alright – here I go.
Update: Alright, I’m an idiot. It turns out that they have support for going over a proxy already because they use gnome-vfs. I’m still not sure why they don’t work at work. I’ll have to investigate a bit. Well, at least I tried. I did sift through a bunch of the code and found where it was doing all of its stuff. Another day goes by and nothing to show for it. Time to watch some Family Guy.

PS – I’m one of those people that just don’t get Sifl & Olly.
PPS – That’s right John, I just wanted to do the trackback thing that bad.

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