Firewall

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 01:04 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Tue, 04.05.10 23:54, Bastien Nocera (bnocera at redhat.com) wrote:
> 
> > <snip>
> > > I think Windows has a similar profiles system now, too.
> > 
> > And the Windows firewall user experience is laughable.
> 
> Well, all I wanted to say is that they seem to have a profile system
> like the one I suggested, i.e. distuingishing Home and Internet Cafe
> profiles and similar....
> 
> http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gvuiuxortv8/SmV4wPaD4tI/AAAAAAAAGPQ/DxjDXCn4xRM/s1600-h/network_location.jpg
> 
> I am pretty sure their UI in general sucks, but to put the fw in
> those profiles Is certainly a good thing I believe.

The UI isn't great, but perhaps we can do better.  But honestly I don't
know how to make it significantly better, and I'm not a UI expert.

But until we know how to make it better, there's no technical reason we
couldn't do what Windows does.

Dan