Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] New welcome pane

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Graeme Hewson wrote:

> I'm afraid I don't like the new welcome pane in the development 
> version.  I think someone starting Ethereal for the first time wants 
> to get an overall impression of what the screen looks like, and 
> doesn't necessarily want to start a capture or look at a capture file.  

Well, but what does a user will see, when he/she starts Ethereal for the 
first time? It will show a three paned window with, well, *nothing* in it.

I've saw new user's waiting for some data coming up, as "nothing" was on 
the screen, only an empty window, unless I've told them that they have 
to load/capture some data. That was the main reason I've implemented 
that welcome pane.

There's no question that the design of the pane should be improved, 
maybe with the title and three columns "Work", "Settings", "Help" or 
such. But I wanted to wait for some reaction before spending too much 
time on this...

> Could the welcome be in a popup?

I don't see any benefit of this, but you might explain the difference.

Regards, ULFL