Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Re: Ethereal patches

[Jerry Talkington <jerryt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

* Guy Harris (guy@xxxxxxxxxx) done spit this rhetoric:
> 
> Should the "Filter:" buttons that let you browse the list of filters pop
> up the filter preferences dialog?
> 
> I.e., is there any point in offering the full panoply of filter editing
> functions, *and* other preference editing functions, at that point?

I'd say yes, for the same reasons you gave about the display options.

> 
> Or should it, instead, pop up just a list of filters, showing the
> filter's name and contents, and, if you got the browsable list through
> the "Filter:" button on the main window, *automatically* apply the
> filter - or, perhaps, have a button other than "OK" to specify that the
> filter in question should be selected *and* applied?

I can see where you would want to *not* apply a filter right away, say, if
you have a huge capture loaded, and wanted to tweak the filter before
applying.

I think that just having another button that says "Apply", and acts as an
Ok and apply is probably a better idea.  I'll look into it.

-- 
Jerry Talkington
NetCache Escalation Engineer
Network Appliance, Inc.

"I believe the children are our future: nasty, brutish and short."