Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] preference tree for SS7

[Andreas Fink <afink@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

+1 from me for the grouping.

I've been many many times looking for the right preference scrolling through the long list.

Sometimes its not too obvious. Like M2PA versus MTP2. Or MTP3 versus M3UA. 

One thing I would love to have is a general setting for SS7 to say how it should display pointcodes. This is something of general to SS7 and applies to MTP3 as well as M3UA as well as MTP3 management messages and might go up the chain to SUA etc. And similar setting would be useful for selecting the general SS7 family (ITU versus ANSI versus whatever other SS7 variant they have invented out there...) even though this might change per protocol inside the stacking.

On 27.03.2007, at 09:13, Jeff Morriss wrote:

Luis Ontanon wrote:

Now I have to type [Ctrl-Shift-P][p][r][o][RET][fw-arrow][t][c][TAB]

and I can modify TCAP's

prefs.

Tomorrow I'll have to:

[Ctrl-Shift-P][p][r][o][RET][fw-arrow][s][s][RET][fw-arrow][t][c][TAB]

for a keyboard animal like me that's a loss...

On the other hand I know that TCAP is an SS7 protocol so *I* would

look there, for someone that does not know what SS7 is how he would

ever know where to look.

And you'd see TCAP next to SCCP next to MTP3 so if you want to change 

multiple preferences at once you wouldn't have to go scrolling...

SS7 is not a good example for this... if you do not know what's SS7

you probably won't see any SS7 traffic not even by accident, lest

you'll now or need to know what's TCAP. But my point is that

categorizing protocols can hide many of these from users.

The flat list is easy to search while for the categorized one you need

to know where the protocol belongs.

What about having an option to "flatten the tree" to search all the 

protocols, sorted alphabetically, like today?

Or even a "filter" box to search the list?

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