From: Ulf Lamping [mailto:ulf.lamping@xxxxxx]
Sent: 02 September 2002 12:59
> I'm thinking about some "usability extensions" and would like to ask the
list about suggestions to it.
> ...
> 3. Currently the settings of filters, colorizing and such will simply be
discarded at program exit,
> if not explicitly saved by the user. This is very confusing for (at least)
windows users.
You might like to revisit the colorization code in a little greater depth.
Here is a critique I wrote some time ago:-
I found that the existing facilities didn't help me much, I have a handfull
of post-it notes covered with numbers that had to be labouriously typed into
the edit fields (which don't select-all on focus acquisition either.) Also,
when this is used in the field I imagine that these colour settings are
going to be corrupted (by user fiddling) fairly frequently. So might I offer
a couple of items for the wish list?
1. A "Copy From (other filter)" button for the colours.
2. On startup, read a colorfilters file from the system path in addition to
the user colourfilters file. Apply filters in this (system) file after (ie
with lower priority than) the filters in the user file. No support is
necessary to create this file, a knowledgable user can copy the file there.
It is not necessary to ship a default system file with Ethereal.
(Later I'm sure we'll start asking for interleaving filters and support for
the system file. But we don't ned it for the moment.)
Also there is a bug:
Colorize Display->Select a filter->Edit->select a different filter->OK on
filter dialog
The newly selected filter in the list box is overwritten with the details of
the edited filter. This is only a display issue and doesn't seem to corrupt
any data.
--
Richard Urwin, Software Design Engineer
Schenck Test Automation
Braemar Court, 1311b Melton Road, Syston, UK.
rurwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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