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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Timo Jyrinki wrote on 06/07/15 08:36:
> ...
> 
> The way to include something like it in Ubuntu by default would be 
> to design some new security feature that includes that and
> probably other security features in something that would make sense
> for the design team to design. There'd need to be a normal user use
> case, the ability to explain the feature to users, etc, all of
> which seem to me a lot bigger topics than just "enable firewall
> yes/no".

Long ago I designed firewall settings for the PC, so maybe you could
adapt those for the phone. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Networking#firewall>

> Alternatively, ubuntu-system-settings could include proper external
> plugin support, I'm not sure if something like that is in plans? Or
> maybe it's already doable, but again it'd need to go through
> non-official store since normal click packages wouldn't be allowed
> to add those plugins to u-s-s?
> 
> ...

I don't know what the point of System Settings having plugins would
be. It would encourage app authors to misplace app-specific settings
there.

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mpt

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