firewalld - A firewall daemon with D-BUS interface providing a dynamic firewall (test version)

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Monday, December 27, 2010 04:11:34 pm Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Montag, den 27.12.2010, 14:42 +0100 schrieb Thomas Woerner:
> > On 12/24/2010 11:45 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Thomas Woerner<twoerner at redhat.com>  
wrote:
> > >> - A simple tray applet (firewall-applet)
> > > 
> > > Actively deprecated; please consider other interfaces.  In this case,
> > > I think a control panel module is just fine.
> > 
> > Is there an interface to use control panel modules with other desktop
> > environments and also window managers?
> > 
> > An applet for a component like a firewall should be usable with more
> > than one desktop environment.
> 
> No matter what GNOME will do KDE, Xfce, LXDE, Fluxbox and many more will
> continue to use the system tray. It is sad to see that GNOME is
> abandoning a well established freedesktop.org standard.

It's not about Gnome, it's about tray applet not wanted here at all. Thomas, 
could you describe interaction with users in more details? The purpose for tray 
applet, other interaction etc. so we can thing about it in more details (with 
destkop environments integration).

Thanks. 
R.

> Regards,
> Christoph

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