Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] I've disabled the welcome pane...

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Hi List!

There seems to be some disagreement about if and how the welcome screen 
feature should be implemented.
As I currently don't have the time to continue this, I've temporarily 
disabled it.


However, if Ethereal has no capture file open or is capturing right now 
(and don't set the "Update list of packets in Real Time" option), it 
will show a gray screen instead of the former three pane view.

We currently don't have a concept of adding something to an "empty 
document" (except while running a capture), so showing the three paned 
view if no capture file is open was completely misleading...

This would be different, if we would have something like a "Open new 
empty capture file" feature, but that's far far away from here ...


I might continue on this welcome screen topic later, after I've got more 
work done to this:

I will concentrate on the privilege seperation of the capture engine 
now, but only if time permits, and times really low these days for me :-(

Regards, ULFL