Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] GTK GUI patch to make save capture dialogs a preference setting

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

David Brower wrote:

> In my usagem I never ever save a capture file, and I'm bothered
> enough by Ethereal's questioning me I've done something about it.
>
> The following patch adds a gui preferences item called
> "Save Capture dialogs", whose "Nag" value may be
> either "Safe" or "Silent".     The default behaviour is
> "safe".
>  
I don't want to have something like the term nag in the sources. It 
might nag you, but I'm using this feature to save my files.

Having "Save" or "Silent" isn't a good idea either. It's unsure what's 
meant be "Silent". Will it safe the file or not in this situation?

> When set to "Silent", the questioning boxes never appear,
> and you can X out the window and it goes away; similarly
> you can start a new capture without a "save" nag.
>
> I hope this is of use to someone.
>  
Hmmm, I'm not sure if this should be a preference setting, as this would 
be a very unusal behaviour.

The specific dialog box should have a checkbox "Don't ask again" (or 
something like this), and should save this setting in the recent file, 
but not in the preferences.

I was thinking of this quite a while ago, and still don't have a good 
idea where to *enable* this function again if it once was disabled 
through this mechanism.

Regards, ULFL