Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] changing display options to be part of preferences
Guy Harris wrote:
>
> > I was thinking of doing this, and sett up some additional preferences
> > options to keep track of default settings for the display options
>
> That sounds less like "changing display options to be part of
> preferences" than like "making the *default* setting for the display
> options a preference".
>
> The former might require that you select the right tab in the
> "Edit:Preferences" dialog box if all you wanted to do was, say, change
> whether it was displaying times relative to the first packet or relative
> to the previous packet; I'd rather not do that - I'd like to have it be
> fairly convenient to change options such as that.
You could have the display options menu item function the same as
clicking on the "Filter" button - bring up the preferences dialog with
that tab already selected. That would yield both benefits - having all
configuration centralized into the preferences window, and also having
easy access to display options.
> > as well as other options like window sizes.
>
> Perhaps, for window sizes, Ethereal should simply remember the last
> sizes you selected - i.e. you set the default main window size by
> resizing the main window, etc..
Actually, I'd much rather have it be explicit (i.e. via a button that
says "use current position and size". It irks me when netscape picks a
new default size for windows just because I stretched out a window to
full screen for a particular web page/site.
At the least, I was thinking that most of what you can set on the
command line should be settable with preferences.
-- Nathan
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