firewall-applet GTK+ -> Qt

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 13:19:27 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 June 2015 at 12:12, Thomas Woerner <twoerner at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 1) The gtk statusicon widget is deprecated in gtk3, will be removed soon.
>
> Why do you need a status icon at all? I can't imagine why I'd want my
> firewall sending messages to the desktop.
>
>> I plan to port firewall-config also over to Qt for one of the next releases.
>
> That's completely your choice, but I'm sure it won't help the "do we
> need firewalld at all on the workstation" crowd at all given that the
> workstation is predominantly GTK-based.

Well given that we ship QT by default and there is work being done on
a QT theme for workstation I don't think "written in QT" is an
argument against an app. (whether we need a firewall config tool by
default or not is a different story).


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