michaelaye
March 4th, 2009, 08:46 AM
Hi!
Just installed boxee for Mac and could not "Add New User", getting the error message that the internet connection is not available. (My Internet boxee account was setup already).
As I often have this kind of internet connectivity problem due to our university proxy, I wanted to put the proxy settings to boxee.
So I searched the forums and people are mentioning the network settings.
But I couldn't see nor find anywhere a settings field, just this Add new user window that I couldn't pass, most likely due to the missing proxy settings I thought to myself.
So I wondered, what if the settings access only appears after once this connection is made? This would be stupid of course, but what if...?
I found in the forum that some settings could be reset by deleting files in the "Application Support/Boxee"-folder. So I argued, then settings must be stored there. Went to the the folder (~user/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData) and searched for "network".
All to soon it was obvious that the proxy settings were stored in guisettings.xml, so I edited the file, put in my university proxy settings and lauchned Boxee again.
And whaddayaknow, now the Add User thingie worked flawless and fast, and 'eh voila', there was the settings->network window as announced.
But honestly, Boxee team, how can it be, that I need to do this detective work just to get the settings menu?
Or did I miss some magic mouse hovering position that would have let me see it before? Should I read some GUI introduction for Boxee? (If so, the design would be sub-optimal, no?)
Anyhow, thought this could help someone like me in installing it while being behind a proxy.
And now I hope I will enjoy the boxee experience Cali Lewis so often is talking about... ;)
Best regards,
Michael
Just installed boxee for Mac and could not "Add New User", getting the error message that the internet connection is not available. (My Internet boxee account was setup already).
As I often have this kind of internet connectivity problem due to our university proxy, I wanted to put the proxy settings to boxee.
So I searched the forums and people are mentioning the network settings.
But I couldn't see nor find anywhere a settings field, just this Add new user window that I couldn't pass, most likely due to the missing proxy settings I thought to myself.
So I wondered, what if the settings access only appears after once this connection is made? This would be stupid of course, but what if...?
I found in the forum that some settings could be reset by deleting files in the "Application Support/Boxee"-folder. So I argued, then settings must be stored there. Went to the the folder (~user/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData) and searched for "network".
All to soon it was obvious that the proxy settings were stored in guisettings.xml, so I edited the file, put in my university proxy settings and lauchned Boxee again.
And whaddayaknow, now the Add User thingie worked flawless and fast, and 'eh voila', there was the settings->network window as announced.
But honestly, Boxee team, how can it be, that I need to do this detective work just to get the settings menu?
Or did I miss some magic mouse hovering position that would have let me see it before? Should I read some GUI introduction for Boxee? (If so, the design would be sub-optimal, no?)
Anyhow, thought this could help someone like me in installing it while being behind a proxy.
And now I hope I will enjoy the boxee experience Cali Lewis so often is talking about... ;)
Best regards,
Michael