Re: Firewall configuration [was Re: no external panels for gnome-control-center]

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 01:41 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 20:06 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 18:14 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > Why? Because the premise of System Settings in GNOME 3 is,
> > > surprisingly, to change your system settings or personalize the
> > > experience. E.g. we think it genuinely makes sense to e.g. add a
> > > printer, change your desktop background, create an user account and so
> > > on. We should strive to make this as easy as possible and having 20
> > > panels such as "Java Settings" or "HTTPD Control" or even "Firewall"
> > > is something that gets in the way.
> > 
> > I'm hesitant to jump in the middle of this. I don't want to have
> > an argument, but I do think our designers should at least look
> > at the case of firewalls.
> 
> The problem is that nobody has written a usable interface for it.
> 
> What we looked at was:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SystemConfig/firewall#Planned_features
> 
> And the person working on system-config-firewall at Red Hat is working
> on making the backend not suck so we can implement the concept of zones
> (of varying security), and integrates that with NetworkManager and the
> Sharing & Privacy panel:
> https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/PrivacyAndSharing
> 
> The backend should work on pretty much any Linux distribution after
> that. Note that the data about the backend and the concept of zones is
> correct, the mockups are pretty far from what we intend on implement (if
> those are needed at all in fact).

Thanks, Bastien. I see people are putting thought into this.
That's enough for me.

--
Shaun