Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Top Menu Item: rename "Display" to "View" (Capture top level

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From: "Ulf Lamping" <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:20:06 +0200
> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:59:39 +0200
> From: "Lars Ruoff" <lars.ruoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Top Menu Item: rename "Display" to "View"
> 	and	moveone to the left?
> 
> Personally, i would even get a step further and eliminate the Capture item
> from top level, putting it as the first entry in File (-> File/Start
> capture...).
> Of course some would argue that this is the most important function, and so
> it deserves an item of its own. But its counter-intuitive.
> Most people i know (only Windows-users however), instinctively open the
> File-menu when opening an application the first time, as it is where they
> expect the "New Document" functionality.
> Note that having Capture removed from the top level menu is not a problem
> when we have a toolbar, since of cource "Start capture" would still be
> directly accessible as the first toolbar icon (i suggest).
> 
> Lars
> 

Hi Lars!

I would agree in principle with this approach, but one thing is:
Where put the item "Capture/Stop Capture" into (this is not shown on Win32 platforms, the functionality still isn't implemented right now).

Has someone a good idea, where to put this menu item on unix machine menus?

Regards, ULFL
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