Bug 1960606

Summary:	firewall-applet not usable in GUI installation
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Tomas Dolezal <todoleza>
Component:	firewalld	Assignee:	Eric Garver <egarver>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Version:	8.4	CC:	snemec, todoleza
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Description Tomas Dolezal 2021-05-14 11:17:50 UTC

Description of problem:
firewall-applet is unusable in desktop environment due to Gnome's lack of support of status bar where the applet puts itself to.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhel-8.4
firewall-applet-0.8.2-6.el8.noarch (AppStream)

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
dnf groupinstall workstation-product-environment
systemctl start graphical.target
# now as user:
# firewall-applet is automatically started via xdg-autostart
killall firewall-applet
DEBUG=10 firewall-applet
# no errors shown, applet is not available

Actual results:
the applet is not usable at all

Expected results:
applet is not shipped (if possible), or
note on how to make the applet work

Additional info:

Comment 5 Eric Garver 2021-06-14 15:04:00 UTC

Closing as CANTFIX. Copying comment from bug 1791860 comment 15.

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The applet can be made visible by:

  1. install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus
  2. log out/in of gnome
  3. enable Topicons Plus (Tweaks -> Extensions)

This is an issue induced by Gnome hiding status icons [1]. AFAIK, the only fix is to run the applet like a normal window. If you're going to do that you might as well run firewall-config which is basically what [1] suggest.

[1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/StatusIconMigration/