On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 17:45 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 01:38:05PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 16:11 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > > > Perhaps I misread the original comment - but it was the suggestion of > > > having avahi running by default. > > > > > > Do you mean having that be the case from the livecd or from the package > > > itself. > > > > > > If the former, then you're right it's a side issue. I thought the latter > > > was being discussed which is why I brought up that report. > > > > I think both are being discussed somewhat. It'd be nice to do it > > everywhere, so that the regular install does match somewhat the livecd > > case, but as a fallback, just doing it on the livecd is less > > contentious. I'd certainly like to see it on the livecd, and then I'd > > also like to see us work toward having it on regular installs too, in a > > way that will keep most parties happy. > > I don't know if this is related to Avahi or not, but with the default > firewall rules I can't see my friend's printers shared via his Mac > system. As soon as I turn off the firewall, the printers show up in > the GNOME printing dialog. It would be nice if this just worked > correctly out-of-the-box and in the LiveCD case without needing to > fiddle with firewall rules. This isn't the only thing that doesn't work by default, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/Firewall Opening up avahi's port is a first step, having better firewall support in applications is something I'm discussing with a few people (including the system-config-firewall maintainer). Cheers -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
