[tor-bugs] #6435 [Vidalia]: Add client-side pluggable transports support to Vidalia

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#6435: Add client-side pluggable transports support to Vidalia
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 Reporter:  asn      |          Owner:  chiiph
     Type:  defect   |         Status:  new   
 Priority:  normal   |      Milestone:        
Component:  Vidalia  |        Version:        
 Keywords:           |         Parent:  #6434 
   Points:           |   Actualpoints:        
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Comment(by chiiph):

 Vidalia right now accepts things like "obfs2 someip blabla" in the "add
 bridge" settings dialog. So we should try to keep it as simple as possible
 for the user.

 The ClientTransportPlugin line depends a lot on how Vidalia is distributed
 (say, TBB vs installation with a linux package manager). So my tendency
 here is to think this from two different sides:

 The software packager side:
 - If you want to distribute Tor+SomeTransport+Vidalia, you need to do it
 with the proper torrc lines.

 The user side:
 - If you want the usage to be simple, well, it's a complicated feature so
 ship presets and then the user puts "obfs2 etc" in the "add bridge" thingy
 and it just works.
 - If you want use a particular transport, then you can have a plugin with
 all the weird things you can do with this, or just open the torrc editor
 and do it in there.

 My point here is, I imagine a person that doesn't even know what an IP is,
 they just can't access the internet, I don't imagine them understanding
 the idea of "transport". They only know they have to put this weird text
 in a configuration and it just works. So may be we should focus in
 distributing TBB with the proper presets and create a Vidalia plugin to do
 the advance stuff?

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