Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] View-->Show sub-menu and some of the items ...

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:21:51 -0800
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:53:08PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> I have some comments about some of the items in the View-->Show sub-menu.
> 
> 	View-->Show-->Packet Dissection
> 
> I seem to recall that a number of people refer to this as the packet 
> detail pane. Should we perhaps call it:
> 
> 	View-->Show-->Packet Detail

The Sniffer Pro 4.7 Getting Started Guide refers to the "summary pane",
"detail pane", and "hex pane" (even though the "hex pane", like most if
not all other network analyzer's "hex panes", shows ASCII/EBCDIC as
well).

The Shomiti Surveyor 3.1 manual uses the exact same names.  I think I've
seen other analyzers use the same terms.

We should probably do the same (in the GUI *and* the documentation),
using "Detail" rather than "Protocol tree"...

> Also, 
> 
> 	View-->Show-->Packet Data
> 
> All over the code, and a number of people, refer to this as the byte view 
> pane. Shouldn't it be:
> 
> 	View-->Show-->Byte View

...although we could perhaps use "byte view" rather than "hex dump" as
it's not just hex data.