Hi, I ended up calling the firewalld maintainer to understand the state of things and there is this concept in firewalld called zones that we should be able to use to create a better user experience, yet at the same time keep the firewall working when people connect with their laptop at an internet cafe for instance. Christian ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bastien Nocera" <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 2:47:41 PM > Subject: Re: technical spec for the workstation up for review > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > I've spent quite a bit of time last week on this document: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Technical_Specification > > > > It is not 100% complete, but I haven't found the time to get back to it > > since Friday, so I should probably open it up for a first round of > > review to the other WG member. > > > > Let me know what you think, > > As mentioned in IRC, I don't think we want the "Firewall" item listed in > there: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Technical_Specification#Firewall > > firewalld is a Fedora-only, there's no generic API for application developers > to use > (unless they only target Fedora), and its current implementation means that > it's near impossible to use simple things like Samba browsing, or browsing > UPnP shares > with the default configuration. > > I think we should reconsider not having a firewall by default, and providing > firewalld > and a UI for it as an external installable system software. That reflects on > its current > level of integration in the desktop. > > I didn't see any sections about error reporting (abrt, SETroubleshoot, GNOME > Oops![1]) or > SELinux enablement. > > Cheers > > [1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Oops and > https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/ProblemReporting > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
