Bug#949608: usbguard: bring back some GUI frontend to Debian

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: usbguard
Version: 0.7.6+ds-1
Severity: wishlist


Hi.

Since upstream dropped the frontend applet (and Debian followed)
the probable major use case for usbguard (desktop systems) is pretty
much crippled.

Would it be possible to bring back a frontend do Debian?

An upstream bug:
https://github.com/USBGuard/usbguard/issues/334

mentions e.g.:
https://github.com/6E006B/usbguard-gnome
and
https://github.com/Cropi/usbguard-notifier

but for the later I'm not sure whether it supports
allowing/blocking/rejecting devices or just sends notifications via
libnotify.

Cheers,
Chris.

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Hey.

Anything new on this?

As per:
- https://usbguard.github.io/blog/2019/usbguard-0.7.6
respectively
- https://github.com/USBGuard/usbguard/issues/476#issuecomment-853766678

the former nice Qt Applet won't come back... and instead upstream
suggests: https://github.com/Cropi/usbguard-notifier


Any chances to get that packages instead of usbguard-applet-qt?

Cheers,
Chris.

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Hey.

If you don't mind,... then from my side we can close the bug.

usbguard-notifier is probably not getting packaged anytime soon, and
with usbguard thus being left barely usable for desktops (which are
however it's main target) ... I'm switching now to usbauth.

Cheers,
Chris.