Bug 1957705

Summary:	RFE: make gnome-calculator internet access attemps configurable system-wide
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Phil Jasbutis <pjasbuti>
Component:	gnome-calculator	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Petr Schindler <pschindl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.3	CC:	mcatanza, mclasen, sbarcomb, tpelka, tpopela
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature, Triaged
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	gnome-calculator-3.28.2-2.el8	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Last Closed:	2021-11-09 19:34:22 UTC	Type:	Feature Request
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Description Phil Jasbutis 2021-05-06 10:31:40 UTC

3. What is the nature and description of the request?

- In enterprise environments there are typically regulations that application are not allowed to access the internet by default.
- gnome-calculator has been identified trying to access the internet to pull e.g. exchange rates.
- Due to company policies (prevent unwanted internet connections) this behavior should be made configurable (offline-mode for gnome-calculator)

4. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)

- To fulfill compliance requirements and company regulations.
- Firewall and local logs get cleaner if the access attemps of the gnome-calculator do not show up anymore.

5. How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements here)

- suggestion: add a dconf value recognized by gnome-calculator which let's admin decide/configure if online-mode or offline-mode is system default.
- customer would like to have a commandline way to configure behavior on system wide level.
- it is ok to keep the current beahvior (online-mode) as default.

6. For each functional requirement listed, specify how Red Hat and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully implemented.

1. set a dconf value to the newly implemented key to "false".
2. log in as any user on gnome3 desktop
3. start gnome-calculator from terminal: there should not be made any request to the internet
4. using the calculator: there should not be made any request to the internet

7. Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat Bugzilla?

There is an upstream issue [1] which is requesting similar functionality for different reasons.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calculator/-/issues/58

8. Does the customer have any specific timeline dependencies and which release would they like to target (i.e. RHEL5, RHEL6)?

- RHEL 8.4

9. Is the sales team involved in this request and do they have any additional input?

- no

10. List any affected packages or components.

- gnome-calculator-3.28.2-1.el8.x86_64

11. Would the customer be able to assist in testing this functionality if implemented?

- yes, customer is highly engaged to support testing

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2021-05-13 18:39:32 UTC

Upstream already has a key "refresh_interval" to set how often it hits the network. I've just proposed a merge request here:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calculator/-/merge_requests/89

to make it treat a value of 0 as "don't ever touch the network at all".

There's a bit of a delta between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and the latest upstream, so the above merge request and some other patches will need to get backported.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 19:34:22 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Moderate: GNOME security, bug fix, and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4381