User friendly proxy configuration

[Tim]

On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 11:01 +0100, Alexis Jeandet wrote:
> So my question is: Is there any way to have a centralised proxy config
> with a simple GUI?

If you look through the configuration menus (of course this is harder if
you use a desktop that has abandoned putting things in organised menus),
you'll find an item called something like "network proxy."  It lets that
user specify a proxy, and various applications will make use of that
information.  Not all, but this is no worse than Windows, where you have
to separately configure a plethora of internet applications.

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