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tasmod · Posted: Tue 30 Aug 2011, 12:05 Post subject:

Version 2.0 fixes Firewall ON/OFF in 5.2.8 and 5.2.9 as well as Slacko

MinHundHettePerro · Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 831 Location: SE

Hello, tasmod Smile

!

Really like this application of yours; seen it/used it in many recent pups, where it's included by default.

I cannot find the sources for ver. 2.0 of the compiled file /usr/local/firewallstate/firewallstate, perhaps I missed the location of the sources by only reading this first page of the thread .........

Are the sources available for downloading somewhere?

Cheers Smile

/ MHHP

tasmod · Posted: Tue 27 Sep 2011, 12:03 Post subject:

MHP,

Sorry missed your post.

I'm almost sure that the version 1.8 source was very close to v2.0 but to be sure I uploaded version 2.0 source.

Note that there are other files called but they are annotated in the source and available in the pet. They are gtk scripts that can be read in Geany etc.

tasmod · Posted: Mon 28 Nov 2011, 11:14 Post subject:

Version 2.1 posted.

Information window now updates when called. (So external IP report is correct)

tasmod · Posted: Tue 29 Nov 2011, 06:59 Post subject:

I was asked why the change.

Well, on startup firewallstate retrieves the external IP address and the internal LAN IP. Then stops accessing after placing them in /tmp, this saves further processing.

On a reboot this information is refreshed, no problem, the information is correct.
However, if, as I discovered later, your router drops out and then re-syncs it obtains a new external IP but your system is still running and hasn't rebooted, only your router.
Firewallstate IP checking is not re-run, so the information isn't updated and is incorrect.

I therefore added a call when the right click menu item 'Information' is clicked, to re-run the IP scripts again, thus refreshing the information.

Funny how sometimes an event doesn't take place for quite a while to show up a 'bug' Laughing

kickstart · Joined: 09 Mar 2011 Posts: 80

Hi Tasmod

For your info I have just installed the version 2.1 PET in Racy 522.

No problems with the installation and on reboot the tray icon appears and everything works fine on the right click.

Many thanks for your efforts, this is a really useful PET for Puppies like Racy that don't have any firewall status indication.

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2421

Argolance · Posted: Sat 21 Jul 2012, 12:17 Post subject:

Hello,
... I like this little and very useful program...
Question: why is it only in English? Shocked

I already localized simple external firewallstate-2.1 scripts (for Toutou Linux, French version of Puppy)... could modify chains directly inside source files then compiling, but I think it would be lost time. The best indeed should be a gettext localized main script to get the right click menu translated.
Now that Barry is seriously working for Puppy to be "deeply" localized, should not this (pleeeeeease!), be done systematically from the beginning by programs conceptors? Wink

Cordialement.

tasmod · Posted: Sun 22 Jul 2012, 12:22 Post subject:

Argolance,

Simple and honest answer : I don't know how Embarassed

I will however look into doing it.

Rob

Argolance · Posted: Sun 22 Jul 2012, 13:05 Post subject:

Hello,
...Great! Very Happy

It should not be so difficult (?)!
Just a suggestion: Inside the right-click menu, are Psync, Date and time and Internet connexion wizard really convenient here? These have, by all appearances, directly nothing to do with the Firewall settings and seem to make double-use with some other applets?

Cordialement!

tuxtoo · Joined: 14 Dec 2010 Posts: 66 Location: North Yorkshire, UK

Does anyone know if there is a version that works with Puppy-412 and where I can geta hold of it.

I know 412 is out of date but I like it. So please don't give me a hard time.

rodin.s · Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 323 Location: Ukraine

I am working on Russian version of Slacko so I have made i18n-ed firewallstate. Firewallgtk can be translated using MoManager, the pot-file for binary firewallstate is in /usr/share/doc/nls/firewallstate. I also put Russian mo-files in /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES.
File /usr/share/applications/firewallstate.desktop also has 'Name[ru]' line for Russian. But I don't understand what should it point to. In original it points to directory.
I have also changed line for locale detection:

Argolance · Posted: Tue 11 Sep 2012, 11:21 Post subject:

Thank you...