Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Suggestions related to the capture preferences dialog box

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From: <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 21:26:11 +0100
Hi!

I think the capture preferences dialog box can be sometimes a bit confusing (at least for the unexperienced user), because the units of the settings are missing.

Some simple suggestions to the labels:

The "File size" label could be including the unit "File size (kB):"
The "Duration" label could be including the unit "Duration (s):" or "Duration (sec):"
The "Capture length" label could be "Capture length max. 65535 bytes"

I think, this would be better, and could be implemented almost easily.


A more sophisticated dialog box solution would logically group the fields, 
seperated by thin borders (are these borders possible in GTK?):

- capture input/output: interface, name resolution, promiscuous mode, filtering ...
- file: filename, file size and ring buffer settings
- display update settings
- capture limits: duration, count, ...


Thanks a lot for the ring buffer feature :-)

Best regards,

Ulf Lamping
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