Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] The new save as dialog box looks good, but ...
| From: Richard Sharpe [mailto:rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
|
| On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Ulf Lamping wrote:
|
| > >I am not sure how this plays with the other options. Could
| it be better
| > >handled by a radio button that says Save displayed packets?
| > >
| > You mean, like the print dialog, I have done some time ago?
|
| OK, it really looks like the "... but displayed packets only" really
| applies to a number of the choices above, so it probably should be:
|
| [] Save only displayed packets
|
| However, since people really expect the displayed packets to
| be saved, and
| might not be aware that there are filtered packets that are
| in the capture
| but not displayed, perhaps we should say:
|
| [] Also save any packets not currently displayed
To me this is confusing in the way that I (along with many other Ethereal
users in their novice time) believed that "displayed" meant "visible in the
UI" hence limiting the scope to the number of visible GtkCList rows in the
"packet view" widget, which it isn't. I think it is more intuitive to talk
about a filter always being used by default instead of packets being
displayed or not as the latter allows more than one interpretation. But then
we probably should take more time in introducing the filters in the manual
:)
