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. cheers, Gerd -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
