Hi List!
I currently find it very unintuitive, where Ethereal finds / uses all
it's directories. There is also no way to get information, what the
current settings are.
Example: When I start a capture with the filename "hello.cap", I'm not
sure where the file will be placed into and "of course" there's no way
to change this :-(
Some places comes to my mind:
- working dir (this is the dir where "hello.cap" would be saved)
- program dir (where the .exe is, or how it's called under unix)
- plugins dir (where the plugins will be searched for, includes version
string)
- persconf dir (where the personal config files will be placed, e.g.
personal colorfilters)
- globalconf dir (where the global config files will be placed, e.g.
global colorfilters)
- tmp dir (where an "unamed" new capture file will be placed)
- file open dir (pref setting already available)
Just for a first start, I wanted to get a list of the possible dirs,
some of them might be duplicates.
Do I miss something?
IMHO we need a new page "Directories" somewhere in Edit/Preferences...
Most of the dirs are output only, some might be a new preference setting.
What do "the list" think?
Regards, ULFL
