Issue 1529018: Move firewall warning to "about" menu (original) (raw)

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Created on 2006-07-26 14:13 by taleinat, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (4)
msg50761 - (view)	Author: Tal Einat (taleinat) *	Date: 2006-07-26 14:13
This patch addresses the point brought up in the following post on IDLE-dev by Gregor Lingl. I support this change and nobody raised an objection. " The firewall warning message in the Pythonshell window was introduced in Python 2.3 (IDLE 1.0 or something similar?) I remember well the problems, which have been occurred then, and to which it was the answer. (If I remember correctly I was involved in the discussion thread which led to the introduction of that message.) Since more than three years I've used IDLE on many different systems and I didn't encounter a single Firewall warning since then. (It seems that firewalls nowadays are not offended by the use of 127.0.0.1) Therefore, and because the message is long and ugly, I'd like to suggest to delete it from the Python Shell window and - if considered necessary - for instance to put it into the IDLE Help - "About IDLE" submenu or in a special IDLE-Firewall warning submenu of IDLE-Help. Please observe that it pops up thousands of times and it's read at most once. Additional remark (about my personal interest): I have to do a lot of IDLE-screenshots for a textbook on programming and I really don't like it to occur on all those screenshots. "
msg50762 - (view)	Author: Tal Einat (taleinat) *	Date: 2007-05-13 08:52
Updated (use newer patch file instead of the original): * Uses new textView utility functions (see patch 1718043) * Diff relative to Rev. 55290 File Added: IDLE_firewall_warning.070513.patch
msg56224 - (view)	Author: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk) *	Date: 2007-10-04 03:21
I think it would be better if a dialog popped up (before trying to set up the subprocess!) with the warning. It should have a checkbox, "Don't show this again." And it should be something we can reuse in other situations. Store a tag in the user's .idlerc if he doesn't want to see it again....
msg69570 - (view)	Author: Tal Einat (taleinat) *	Date: 2008-07-11 22:23
What if this message was made part of the error message which is displayed when the connection to the subprocess fails? This way only users in situations where it is likely that the warning is relevant will see it. I suggest this since the original problem for which the warning was added has become very uncommon, so bugging all of our users with such a warning (even if it has a "don't show this again" check-box) seems unnecessary.