Summary: | [RFE] Ask for firewall zone upon first connection | ||
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Product: | [Plasma] plasma-nm | Reporter: | Iñaki Ucar <iucar> |
Component: | applet | Assignee: | Jan Grulich <jgrulich> |
Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | iucar, johnmh, justin.zobel |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Other | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Iñaki Ucar
2019-08-27 17:01:03 UTC
I think there has been some confusion here. Where exactly is the UX issue? How do you expect users to attempt to share files using a port higher than 1024 using a GUI tool available in KDE? If a user figures out how to do anything else, they can figure out how to open a port on a firewall. Not to mention that there are already multiple firewall management GUIs. I fail to see how the decision of the GNOME folks, which has been to ignore various serious concerns in favour of Mac-like "simplicity", helps with UX in any way. (In reply to John M. Harris, Jr. from comment #1) > I think there has been some confusion here. Where exactly is the UX issue? > How do you expect users to attempt to share files using a port higher than > 1024 using a GUI tool available in KDE? There is no confusion. It's a perfectly valid and reasonable request for a feature that is missing. Currently: *I need to know* that there is a firewall and *I need to know* that there is a default policy "public" to have the *intent* of changing it. Then, I have to open the kcm dialog for the connections which, for a WiFi, lands in the "Wi-Fi" tab, not the "General configuration" where the option I'm looking for is: "Firewall zone". A better UX is: as soon as I click on a new connection in the applet, the applet asks me whether the connection is private or public, and sets that "Firewall zone" accordingly. That's it. So please don't mix things, and please, please don't bloat this RFE with endless discussion not directly related to this specific request that is, I believe, clearly stated and substantiated. I fail to see how that would be, in any way, useful. If the user needs to change their firewall zone (In my opinion, very few of the users you're talking about would likely need to do so. If they don't know what a firewall is, they really shouldn't be making firewall related decisions.), there's already a way to do that: Open the Connections kcm, select the connection you'd like to configure, go to the "General configuration" tab and select what you'd like. You fail to see many things, John. |