firewall-applet GTK+ -> Qt

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jun 18 17:58:52 UTC 2015


On Thu, 2015-06-18 at 00:02 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Adam Williamson
> <adamwill at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-06-15 at 15:19 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> > > 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).
> > 
> > Qt is a part of the Workstation flavor by definition: [...]
> 
> I know ... that does not contradict what I said ... in fact it backs 
> it up ;)

Yes. That was what I intended.
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