Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Preparing for 1.0

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 02:36:47 -0800
Joerg Mayer wrote:

tethereal doesn't use dumpcap, so it's not finished yet.

Presumably, if you do a live Tethereal capture without "-w", dumpcap will write to a pipe, and Tethereal will read from it?

  - Smooth out the Windows file dialogs: The "Filter" button doesn't
    work, for instance.

Get us a nice file dialog for Unix/Linux as well.

Different UN*X users might have different ideas about nice; some might like the GTK+ file chooser, some might like the older GTK+ file dialog, some might prefer

	http://www.kde.org/screenshots/images/3.1/fullsize/92.png

and some might like

	http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGWindows/chapter_17_section_6.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000961-TPXREF36