Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Link from the packet list context menu to the corresponding w
I think 1) would be best.
Since so much is still missing from the wiki it might be good that for
now, when the user selects that menu item, that there would first be a
popup that says something about
what the wiki is, that it is new and very incomplete and that they are
encouraged to add new and missing pages. when they click ok on the
popup they are redirected to the wiki.
better also check with gerald first so that 1000000 users hitting the
wiki every day doesnt kill his link and/or webserver.
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:12:38 +0100, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi List!
>
> I've just implemented a way to direct user's from the context menu of
> the packet details to the relevant wiki page.
>
> As we're currently in a release cycle, I've commented out the menu
> items, so our user's won't recognize these changes.
>
> However, the link to the wiki pages will simply point to the abbreviated
> name of the protocol (which usually currently won't exist). For example
> the current implementation will point from "tcp" to the wiki.
>
> As the wiki itself is case sensitive, it won't match the current "TCP"
> wiki page :-(
>
> That way, I currently see only three solutions (as I don't want to
> rename all the abbreviated protocol names in Ethereal for several reasons):
>
> 1.) rename all the protocol related wiki pages, so they will map the
> abbreviated protocol names (my preferred, however a lot of work)
> 2.) add a mapping mechanism between the abbrev. name and the wiki pages
> (a maintenance issue in the long term )
> 3.) redirect all the abbrev. names to real wiki pages (also a
> maintenance issue) using the wiki redirect mechanisms and add new pages
> with the "real" protocol abbrev names
>
> I would prefer the first approach. Ok, it will add a lot of work in the
> short time, but this will pay off in the long term I would think. So we
> would have to rename all wiki pages from their current name to the
> protocols abbreviation (most of the work will be to fix the various
> links already there).
>
> What do the other's think?
>
> Regards, ULFL
>
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