technical spec for the workstation up for review

[Christian Schaller]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bastien Nocera" <bnocera at redhat.com>
> To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 10:25:44 AM
> Subject: Re: technical spec for the workstation up for review
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hi,
> <snip>
> > In both cases we would ideally like the application developers to take some
> > action in terms of how they deal with the situation.
> 
> There wasn't any usable APIs for applications when I first replied to this
> thread, and there still isn't any.
> 
> Man "firewalld.dbus" will show you what app developers are supposed to work
> with.

Well since the whole context of the discussion was that we can not expect developers to 
specifically code for firewall.d, I did not of course propose the do this using
the firewall.d API. Transmission for instance includes functionality for testing if 
the port it wants to use is available (and I assume it is not doing that using the 
firewall.d API).

Of course I don't know if what Transmission does is done using 'non usable' APIs 
according to your definition.


> > That said to me the request we would make of them in the firewall scenario
> > seems easier to do generically than the option we would
> > like them to take in the second option, and also less of a risk when some
> > of
> > the app devs will not do what we hope they
> > will.
> 
> Certainly, because users will simply disable the firewall and be done with
> it.
> That's certainly what I do.

Well I guess you find a lot more value in sharing your photos over DLNA in the local
internet cafe than most of us then :). Personally if my DLNA sharing silently failed
due to me having chosen the internet cafe to be an untrusted area I would likely never
realize as it is not a usecase I have ever cared about.

Christian