[Lxde-list] Qt Firewall configuration

[Jerome L. <ad...@gm...>]

Hi

As part of the Qt System Settings effort, the next item on the list is
Firewall configuration.

The first app I tested was fwbuilder: http://www.fwbuilder.org/

This however seems like a sysadmin-oriented application. It's Qt based
but supports enterprise firewalls and has a far too complex GUI for a
regular user. It also doesn't seem to have a git repo anywhere, just
sourceforge downloads.

The second item I tested is gufw, a gtk3 app. The GUI is far closer to
a proper "user-facing" interface for a desktop system, however there
is one problem with it: it requires ufw on top of iptables. I'm not a
fan of the idea - ufw being a simplified UI for iptables itself...

I could not find any other acceptable firewall configuration guis. As
usual, if anyone knows one or wants to work on one, please let me
know.
A pure-Qt port of Gufw could have the advantage of being accepted
upstream as an optional Qt frontend.

Cheers

J. Leclanche