Ever since firewall-config was removed from the default set of installed apps, Fedora no longer have a way to set basic firewall rules by default too. Also, firewall-config UI looks outdated and bloated and might confuse newcomers. Also, there is no easy way to switch firewall profiles when a user is using a public or a private Wi-Fi hotspot.
Is Settings modular or panels are hard coded in it? Ubuntu, for example, needs to patch Settings to add extra stuff.
It is not modular. Any changes must go upstream.
I believe @hadess intentionally removed all the firewalld settings from the network settings page, so CCing him. There's not a whole lot that desktop users can reasonably be expected to configure because firewalld operates by protocols and ports, rather than by applications. For GNOME to support firewall settings, I'd ideally like to see a completely different firewall architecture that allows users to pick which applications and services should be allowed to access the network, rather than the current structure which just breaks things unexpectedly and which no apps or services know how to integrate with.
We really don't want or need firewall settings in Fedora Workstation. I don't think the state of the art has changed since those changes were implemented after long and difficult discussions: https://www.hadess.net/2014/06/firewalls-and-per-network-sharing.html
That's what I thought. Sorry, but I'm going to close this since realistically nothing is going to happen here unless somebody is interested in a fundamental redesign of how firewalls work on Linux.
Metadata Update from @catanzaro: - Issue close_status updated to: Can't fix - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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