Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] RE:[drb@xxxxxxx: Bug#199763: ethereal: UI issuesincurrent version]

["Greg Morris" <GMORRIS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I would like to see a change under the configuration options to be able to set a fixed size for the info column. This way when loading a trace that might contain a huge description you don't have to scroll way out to the left to see additional column info. Either that or to have Ethereal remember the last column size based on settings saved in the config file. This would not be specific to GTK2. Good idea?

 

Greg

>>> Jaime Fournier <jafour1@xxxxxxxxx> 7/16/2003 2:33:14 AM >>>

The first issue you mention about fixed sized can be
fixed by increasing the MAX_COLUMN_AUTOSIZE_WIDTH
definition in ethereal/gtk/gtkclist.c

Given the recent additions to COL_INFO in various
dissectors, shouldn't't this be made to autosize in a
safe way?



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Bug#199763: ethereal: UI issues incurrent version]
    * From: Frederic Peters <fpeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    * Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:01:53 +0200

I recently switched the Debian package to GTK2.  UI
complaint
attached.

Regards,
        Frederic


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Package: ethereal
Version: 0.9.13-1
Severity: minor

The 0.9.13 version of ethereal has several minor UI
issues which make
it irksome to use.

First, the column sizes in the top frame cannot be
adjusted.  Ethereal
seems (at least with my font selection) to select a
size just a little
too small to hold the data.

Second, it seems impossible to use the cursor keys to
move the
selection bar in the top frame.  One must use the
mouse to change the
selected packet for display in the lower frames.  The
most common
thing which happens instead of the desired behavior is
that the hex
dump window scrolls.  The options regarding the
function of mouse
clicks in the various windows don't seem to affect
this behavior, and
clicking the the top frame (or tabbing to get there)
doesn't seem to
achieve quite what it used to.  One _can_ move an
outline box from
packet to packet, but I haven't yet managed to find
the appropriate
keystroke to select the outlined packet.

These behaviors are changes from the 0.9.4 version in
woody.

De

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux ozymandias 2.4.20 #3 Wed May 14 08:34:38
EDT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1

Versions of packages ethereal depends on:
ii  ethereal-common               0.9.13-1   Network
traffic analyser (common f
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.2.4-1    The ATK
accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.3.1-16   GNU C
Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.2.2-1    The GLib
library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.2.1-6    The GTK+
graphical user interface
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.2.1-3    Layout
and rendering of internatio
ii  libpcap0.7                    0.7.2-1    System
interface for user-level pa
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.4-12
compression library - runtime




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Jaime Fournier

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