RedHat is outodoing itself in trolling - the new firewall UI for Mate

This is a piece of software which is kind of important to make intuitive, you would think. But RedHat knows better. They designed the firewall managing applet so that I, an IT professional with over 20 years (yeah, this is my 20th anniversary of using Linux) experience, cannot understand what the hell I am looking at.

Anyhow, what are these rules supposed to mean? We have a bunch of zones, including "block", "trusted", which sort of speak for themselves, but what is the meaning of the rest, such as "public" or "work" - are these allow rules, or block rules? And when do they activate? Not a word of help on that.

The reload menu item does nothing. You'd think it should act similarly to 'systemctl restart firewalld' but no, it does not do anything. Not a permission issue, as firewall UI authorizes as root when it opens.

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