On 9 December 2014 at 10:27, Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:59 PM, William B <william@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. 


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