On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 14:25, <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:37 PM, Iñaki Ucar <iucar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There's no need to write "a new style of firewall". It would be as easy as asking the user once whether a new connection is trusted or not. That's it. > > > But, well, how do you do that? What do you show to the user? Windows shows a pop-up. I'm not a big fan of pop-ups though, but I have better suggestions. Right now (I'm talking about KDE, sorry), when I click the NM applet in my taskbar, I see the WiFi networks available. Ok, suppose that I want to connect to a new one. I see the name of the network, a "Connect" button and, if it's a closed network, a password prompt. The only additional thing I miss there is a switch that says trusted/untrusted. That's it. Possibly with a short context help message when I place the cursor on top of it which says that trusted means that I'm at home, and I possibly want to share resources, and untrusted means that I'm at a cafe, airport... and I prefer to stay safe. That's all it takes: a small green/red switch, saying trusted/untrusted, and mapped to the proper firewalld zones. You don't need firewall-config, you don't even need to know there's such a thing as a "firewall" behind the scenes. You only know that home is trusted, other places are untrusted. Iñaki _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
