Patches item #1529018, was opened at 2006-07-26 17:13 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1529018&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: IDLE Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Tal Einat (taleinat) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Move firewall warning to "about" menu Initial Comment: This patch addresses the point brought up in the following post on IDLE-dev by Gregor Lingl. I support this change and nobody raised an objection. " The firewall warning message in the Pythonshell window was introduced in Python 2.3 (IDLE 1.0 or something similar?) I remember well the problems, which have been occurred then, and to which it was the answer. (If I remember correctly I was involved in the discussion thread which led to the introduction of that message.) Since more than three years I've used IDLE on many different systems and I didn't encounter a single Firewall warning since then. (It seems that firewalls nowadays are not offended by the use of 127.0.0.1) Therefore, and because the message is long and ugly, I'd like to suggest to delete it from the Python Shell window and - if considered necessary - for instance to put it into the IDLE Help - "About IDLE" submenu or in a special IDLE-Firewall warning submenu of IDLE-Help. Please observe that it pops up thousands of times and it's read at most once. Additional remark (about my personal interest): I have to do a lot of IDLE-screenshots for a textbook on programming and I really don't like it to occur on all those screenshots. " ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1529018&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Patches mailing list Patches@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/patches
