Firewalld applet in KDE

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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.

poc