tooltip for rules is confusing

Bug #272109 reported by Hew
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Gufw
Fix Released
Low
costales
gui-ufw (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
costales

Bug Description

When hovering over the "Currently enabled rules" section, the following tooltip is displayed:

"The rows are grayed out because the current configuration is to [allow|deny] all incoming traffic"

This is confusing, as it is displayed even when there are no greyed out rules, or indeed no rules at all. I expect in most cases users will not have rules ignored by their configuration anyway.

The purpose of the grey colour is very easy to understand and does not warrant a description. Anyone that is smart enough to add a rule will already understand what is going on. The tooltip should be removed.

On a related issue (not worth creating another bug report about), "Currently enabled rules" is technically incorrect if it's displaying disabled rules as well (even though they're greyed out). It should be renamed to something like "Rules".

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Hew (hew)
Changed in gui-ufw:
importance: Undecided → Low
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costales (costales) wrote :

Hi Hew! Thanks by idea ;)
I think your idea is correct.
I change "Currently enabled rules" by "Rules".
I will quit the tooltip, but I'm thinking about this:
Maybe is better not show the disabled rules??? Or the gray color is ok?
Thanks!

Changed in gui-ufw:
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → marcos.alvarez.costales
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Hew (hew) wrote :

Grey is fine. The problem is the tooltip telling you that rules are disabled regardless of whether they are or not.

The rules still exist in both configurations so they should still be shown. Greying them out is intuitive and appropriate for rules which exist but currently have no effect.

Thank you for your work on these gufw bugs! It's great to know there will be no outstanding gui-ufw (Ubuntu) bug reports for Intrepid :-)

costales (costales)
Changed in gui-ufw:
assignee: nobody → marcos.alvarez.costales
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → In Progress
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Soul-Sing (soulzing) wrote :

i agree Hew

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costales (costales) wrote :

Fixed in bzr.
I will release this bug when more change will be done ;)
Thanks by idea ;)

Changed in gui-ufw:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gui-ufw - 0.20.2~bzr158-0ubuntu1

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gui-ufw (0.20.2~bzr158-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream bzr revision 158, LP: #273105.
  * Add gufw/changelog to debian/docs.
  * This upstream revision also fixes: LP: #267604, #270510, #272109.

 -- Devid Antonio Filoni <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:20:01 +0200

Changed in gui-ufw:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
costales (costales)
Changed in gui-ufw:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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