On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 01:41 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 20:06 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 18:14 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > > > Why? Because the premise of System Settings in GNOME 3 is, > > > surprisingly, to change your system settings or personalize the > > > experience. E.g. we think it genuinely makes sense to e.g. add a > > > printer, change your desktop background, create an user account and so > > > on. We should strive to make this as easy as possible and having 20 > > > panels such as "Java Settings" or "HTTPD Control" or even "Firewall" > > > is something that gets in the way. > > > > I'm hesitant to jump in the middle of this. I don't want to have > > an argument, but I do think our designers should at least look > > at the case of firewalls. > > The problem is that nobody has written a usable interface for it. > > What we looked at was: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SystemConfig/firewall#Planned_features > > And the person working on system-config-firewall at Red Hat is working > on making the backend not suck so we can implement the concept of zones > (of varying security), and integrates that with NetworkManager and the > Sharing & Privacy panel: > https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/PrivacyAndSharing > > The backend should work on pretty much any Linux distribution after > that. Note that the data about the backend and the concept of zones is > correct, the mockups are pretty far from what we intend on implement (if > those are needed at all in fact).
Thanks, Bastien. I see people are putting thought into this. That's enough for me. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
