Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Redesign of the WHOLE Ethereal main menu structure

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Hi List!

I've recently checked in the changes to the Ethereal main menu 
structure, I have outlined a few weeks ago.

This was done to get a more user intuitive menu structure and to conform 
somewhat better to the Gnome Human Interface Guideline (and others)

The main idea behind the new menu structure (where to find which thing...):

File: Input / Output, Print
Edit: Find & Mark Packets / Edit Preferences
View: Manipulate the behaviour of the output window (the view to the 
captured packets)
Capture: Live capture of network data (includes filtering)
Analyze: Captured data analysis (display filtering, ...)
Help: Give the user a helping hand

As the menu is a very central point of the application, I expect that 
not every user will agree with the changes.
But I hope, I have found a good solution, which is suitable for everyone.

The menu changes I've made are not completely finished:
-"File/Print Packet" can be removed, when the print dialog is able to 
print single frames
-"View/Options" should be seperated into single menu items, not a dialog box
-"Analyze/Statistics" could be moved to a seperate toplevel menu item

I will work on these things, if I find some time for it...

Feel free to send suggestions what could be improved, bugs, ...

Regards, ULFL