Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Next Release: Win32 NSIS installer pendingquestions

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 4, 2004, at 2:26 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote:

> BUT: don't hide that possibility to novice users! They might have very 
> different needs compared to yours and might find colorfilters *very* 
> useful for their needs,

There's a difference between finding color filters useful and finding a 
particular *set* of color filters useful.

I don't think anybody's arguing that color filters are never useful to 
anybody.

I'm just not yet convinced that we can supply a set of color filters 
that will be sufficiently generally useful.  If 99% of the users end up 
creating their own color filters and throwing away the pre-supplied 
ones, it's not clear that it was worth supplying them....

If the underlying problem is just that people don't know that they 
*can* color the display, then

	1) I don't know that supplying a standard set of color filters will 
help much - the user might well just assume that we've hard-wired the 
colors into the system, and *still* end up frequently asking the list 
how to color the display the way *they* want;

	2) that sounds more like a documentation issue.