----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 10:22:01 AM > Subject: Re: "Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall > > On Di, 2014-12-09 at 08:16 -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 12:54:59PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > > Why we can't have something like this? And if you don't want a popup > > > > asking, have something in the NetworkManager applet menu, where people > > > > can easily find the switch without having to search for it? A "[x] > > > > allow sharing" checkbox? A firewall zone selector? > > > > > > We can — we just need someone to design and write it. > > > > A design for something that we don't want to implement. This was one of the > > options when implementing the feature, one that we didn't pursue. We chose > > instead to use "user intent" as a way to do this. > > > > If you start sharing something on a network, then we consider it safe to > > share. > > If you connect to a public unencrypted Wi-Fi, you won't have the option to. > > If > > you connect to an encrypted Wi-Fi where sharing your holiday photos isn't > > acceptable > > then it won't, because you didn't ask it to in the first place. > > That assumes all applications behave that way. Which simply isn't true, > there is a world outside gnome. You apparently choose to ignore that, > which is a bad idea IMO. Well we are not shipping by default anything which doesn't conform to this, and if you go out of your way to install something I don't think it is far fetched to assume you want that thing to work. Christian -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
