Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Is it time to make Wireshark a native Mac OS X application?
On Sep 20, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote:
An in my opinion, the different GUIs don't have to do all the same
things:
It's called competition and hopefully will make all existing guis
better.
I agree that different cross-platform GUI toolkits could be
advantageous, though we would have to be careful to not severely limit
the user's experience in the case of having an unfinished port.
In the case of the hypothetical native Mac OS X port, it would have to
look and act a bit differently to adhere to Apple's Human Interface
Guidelines...
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGIntro/XHIGIntro.html#/
/apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000894-TP6
... not to mention what Mac users expect.
One thing I'd like to see is just a single executable that loads the
approproate gui plugin instead of the other way round (gui loading
libwireshark
as a library). An example application that does something like that
was
centericq and probably its successor centerim (http://
www.centerim.org).
Interesting idea. Could you elaborate on the advantages of doing
that? I glanced at CeterIM's web page, but it wasn't readily apparent
what the advantages are.
Steve
