On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 01:44:23PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 07:47 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:30:17 +0100 > > Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Maybe Lennart can fix it too? :) > > > > > > Here's an old entry in my bookmarks: > > > http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/fieryfilter/ > > > http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/fieryfilter/fieryfilter.png > > > > > > This probably needs UI love, and use of D-Bus instead of Unix sockets > > > for the admin rights, but the idea is there. > > > > Actually I find these questions to be a net lose. Just like the ssl > > cert questions in browsers. They're scray questions in languages the > > user either doesn't understand or just plain doesn't care about. (and > > no, I don't have a better suggestion to solve the problem) > > I was mostly talking about the infrastructure that this provides. and I > mentioned the UI needs love. It would allow us to do something like > that: > http://www.wap.org/journal/security3/firewall.jpg This looks fairly sensible. From the look of the png above though, it pops up a dialog for every packet that doesn't match the rules? That sounds like a *really* bad idea. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
