On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote:
sure, however, I can confirm running firewall-config works fine

Yeah, I can confirm that also.  Must admit it took me a few moments to figure out how
to configure the firewall, I've been spoiled by the applet.  

Just trying to understand the rules and the associated precedent.  Redhat has the bug
report, so if they weren't aware of the issue and somehow missed Kevin's note, they 
definitely know now.  There should be feature parity across desktops for applications
designated as "default".    

Thanks for taking the time to reply and your updates to the bug report.