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

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

I don't know...  I also find the dialog very annoying (because I, too, 
rarely save my capture files; more often I quickly stop/restart a 
capture to get a clean screen).

> 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.

In fact I thought there was a preference for this already (oops); even 
with that belief I have been meaning for some time to send a mail 
suggesting a "Don't ask again" checkbox (since I run Ethereal on many 
different machines--always as 'root'--and am too lazy to change the 
preferences on every single one).

Of course, if it were a preference setting I suppose could probably find 
a way to push out a global preferences file to all my systems thus 
solving my "problem" (both for me and for my coworkers).