Firewalld applet in KDE

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 11:28 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 01/24/2013 10:51 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 10:42 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >> On 01/24/2013 10:10 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 18:48 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> >>>> You can set per-network firewall settings in the Edit Connection dialog of the 
> >>>> network manager applet.
> >>> [Please don't top-post on this list]
> >>>
> >>> I see the dialogue, but it's not nearly flexible enough. For example,
> >>> there's no obvious way of allowing access to a given port (service)
> >>> which is one of the most basic requirements of firewall configuration.
> >>>
> >> I could be wrong....  But what I think Ryan was trying to convey was that for each connection (a.k.a. Interface) you could assign a firewalld zone and then configure that zone as you wish for all the services you want to allow.
> >>
> >> Yes, you have to use 2 Tools.  One being "firewall-config"
> > But as far as I can see you can do all that from firewall-config itself,
> > and you can't do it all from the KDE NM applet, so my question remains.
> > I'm not saying this is a big problem, just that it reflects an asymmetry
> > between Gnome and KDE, not for the first time.
> >
> 
> To me, the current condition in KDE is logical.
> 
> The firewall-config tool should have the ability to change the rules of all the zones as well as assign a zone to an interface.
> 
> The Network-Manager need only have the ability to change the zone for an interface.
> 
> I don't use GNOME, so I don't know if its NM allows you to change firewall rules/policy.  I think you're saying it does.

I don't use Gnome either, however in
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD?rd=FirewallD/#Tray_Applet we
see that the Gnome applet can call on firewall-config to do its thing.
That's probably all that's required and it would be nice to have a KDE
equivalent.

poc