[tor-bugs] #6620 [Vidalia]: Vidalia does not disable proxy after "I use a proxy to access the Internet" is unchecked

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#6620: Vidalia does not disable proxy after "I use a proxy to access the Internet"
is unchecked
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 Reporter:  tor-onion  |          Owner:  chiiph         
     Type:  defect     |         Status:  needs_review   
 Priority:  critical   |      Milestone:                 
Component:  Vidalia    |        Version:  Vidalia: 0.2.20
 Keywords:             |         Parent:                 
   Points:             |   Actualpoints:                 
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Changes (by chiiph):

  * status:  needs_revision => needs_review


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:4 sysrqb]:
 > But the way I understand Vidalia to handle these changes is that while
 Tor is not running Vidalia write the changes out to its config and marks
 them as changed. Once Vidalia starts Tor and successfully connects to it,
 Vidalia sends the necessary commands to apply the new settings.
 >
 > This is exactly how my tests show it to work...is this not how it was
 designed to work?

 Right, I forgot about that, yes. I trust that your patch works, but I'm
 just confused about why starting Tor right after saving the settings is
 different from changing them, wait a few seconds, and press "Start Tor"
 (as the reporter seems to have done). Do you understand where my confusion
 comes from? It would be nice to understand why those settings saved in
 vidalia.conf and marked as unapplied to Tor don't get applied sometimes.

 >
 > And for the alpha, is there an eta on it?

 It's already good to go from my point of view, but there need to be at
 least one alpha release so that it gets properly tested before calling it
 stable.

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