On 9 December 2014 at 10:27, Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:59 PM, William B
<william(a)firstyear.id.au>
wrote:
> The true crux of this issue is the over complexity that firewalld has
brought to fedora, and the fact that a quality UI for managing it does not
exist yet.
>
> OSX solves this issue by having an "on or off" button, and a list of
applications that are allowed access. When the application first requests
access, a prompt is given to add the application to the allow list. Why are
we so against such a UI?
OS X's firewall is disabled by default. Where's the outcry?
It was a long time ago and it basically caused it to have extra
configurations before it could be 'ok'd' for various corporate and
government sites. Not something Fedora Workstation is aiming at.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.