Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Feature Set for 1.0

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I just started ghosting on this list.

"Ghosting"?

> Help
>   -- Help Topics ( invokes html browser )

Good idea - which browser would it invoke?

That'd also involve actually writing the help text, of course....

>   -- About  (Give yourselves some credit and list the output of
> ethereal -v )

It's already there (and has been for ages).

> Also,
>   - a default color scheme for packets included with the release.

I don't know whether there's a default color scheme that everybody'd
like.  I personally prefer defaulting to Boring Old Black And White, and
setting color filters myself on occasion.

>   - infrastructure for "expert analysis" (maybe the plug-in api already does
> this)

It doesn't.

> with a initial implementation of socket problems (pointing out
> re-transitions, slow response

That might also be useful.

There has been talk of equipping Ethereal with a scripting language;
many "experts" might be written in scripting languages - I could imagine
people who aren't C programmers but who are familiar with networking
problems wanting to write scripts to detect particular problems.