Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal/gtk menu.c

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 01:47:27 -0700
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:08:20AM +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> The reason I put the "Coloring Rules" in the view menu is that it will
> make it much more intuitive, that the coloring will only change the
> view, and not the decoding of the data itself. 

Well, that item also has stuff to import and export coloring rules,
which isn't really relevant to the view - and note that some preference
settings also change only the view.

The "Save" button saves the current coloring rules as default coloring
rules.  One might have a set of default coloring rules and then set up
some other rules for a particular capture; perhaps there should be "Edit
-> Default Coloring Rules", which is always active and acts on the saved
coloring rules (and, in fact, could immediately act on those rules,
without having a "Save" button), and "View -> Color Packets", which just
affects the current rules, not the saved default rules.