An "online desktop" for GNOME? [LWN.net]

An "online desktop" for GNOME?

Posted Jul 26, 2007 10:56 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
Parent article: An "online desktop" for GNOME?

If you want to share the web cache between applications, use a decent caching proxy and let it do that for you. (I've recently got hooked on Juliusz Chroboczek's Polipo, which speaks HTTP better than most browsers I've tested and is quite capable of doing things like upgrading non-pipelined connections to pipelined ones and such things...)

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An "online desktop" for GNOME?

Posted Jul 26, 2007 16:12 UTC (Thu) by walters (subscriber, #7396) [Link]

I considered that, but the problem is that no major distribution I know of ships a caching HTTP proxy setup. So I'd have to roll my own, or expect distributions to do it? There is nothing truly technically hard about that, but it opens up a big can of worms by trying to say Depends: correctly-configured-desktop-http-proxy.

An "online desktop" for GNOME?

Posted Jul 26, 2007 22:26 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, none of them ship with one set up by *default*, but all that I know
of have packages for caching proxies. Of course there are policy decisions
in installing one: how much space do you want it to eat and how long
should cached pages be kept for, for starters.