Comment 2 for bug 850468
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| Martin Pool (mbp) wrote Re: [Bug 850468] Re: firewall apparently disabled until you authenticate | #2 |
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(Get the code!)
So, without citing chapter and verse, I think it's a pretty good ui
rule that if the app "doesn't know" whether the firewall is enabled or
not, it shouldn't pretend to know about it. The fact that it's
disabled in a clean installation is not really persuasive to me - on a
machine with gufw installed, perhaps it's pretty likely that it is
installed?
Some options:
* hide the radiobutton until it's unlocked
* replace it with text saying "unlock to show status"
* require people to authenticate to use gufw at all (since it seems
that you can't do anything as non-root?)