Proxy abstraction
Since a few months, I’m using Debian at work. Sadly, a lot of programs don’t work right, because they don’t implement proxy usage. I filed several bug reports for programs to implement that, but the problem here is, that not every program is actively maintained. And even if that gets fixed, you won’t get that in Debian for about two years in most cases.
I don’t get why there isn’t an abstraction layer implemented in the system, so that everything just works. Instead, tens of thousands of programs have to implement proxy usage on their own. Since “network just working” is the goal of NM – could you maybe implement such a layer, so that these problems are gone?