Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Patch to make the prompt to save capture dialo g a preference

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From: "Nisbet, Tom" <Tnisbet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:19:59 -0400
If you are going to add preferences for warnings, another good one would be
the new "Save Capture File Before Starting New Capture" prompt.  It would be
great if that could be selectively disabled.

> 
> At least in some cases (some warnings from Web browsers about 
> secure vs.
> non-secure HTTP, for example), a "do you really want to do 
> this?" dialog
> box has a "don't warn me about this again" check box.  That might be a
> more convenient way to turn that warning off.
> 
> However, I'm not sure how you turn it back on again, so it would
> probably still need to be a preference that the user can 
> explicitly set
> or clear.