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Re: Eliminate annoying color filter dialog
From: Chris Maynard <chris.maynard () gtech com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 20:38:46 +0000 (UTC)
Stig Bjørlykke <stig@...> writes:
I think this sort of warnings are important to an user trying to configure the installed version of Wireshark (which usually is only one) with some custom configurations, because he/she may not be able to spot an error if not given a warning. They are less important to developers/advanced users having multiple instances of Wireshark, because we know what we are doing (well, most of the time).
Developers aside and focusing on normal users, in this case (the case of an invalid color filter coming from a saved filter), the user would have had to manually edit the colorfilters file (the one that says at the top, "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE"), as Wireshark would not have allowed them to create an invalid color filter through the GUI. I don't think that's very likely to happen, so the only ones who probably see these specific color filter warnings are the developers doing things like what I'm doing.
My personal opinion is that we should focus on the user (give warnings), but have an option for developers/advanced users to disable warnings window(s). Maybe display all warnings (fetched from statusbar_push_temporary_msg?) in one window at startup, with an option to disable? This window can also be available from the menu for later analysis of all warnings.
Well, that's essentially what we've got. The warning would now be printed in the console window, assuming the user has configured his preferences such that "Open a console window" is not set to "Never". Of course, this is currently a "Windows-only" preference, but is there any reason why it couldn't be added for all platforms? That would give all users the choice of whether or not they wanted to see these warnings or not. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Re: Eliminate annoying color filter dialog, (continued)
- Re: Eliminate annoying color filter dialog Stephen Fisher (Mar 08)
- Re: Eliminate annoying color filter dialog Jeff Morriss (Mar 08)
- Re: Eliminate annoying color filter dialog Chris Maynard (Mar 08)
- Re: Eliminate annoying color filter dialog Gerald Combs (Mar 08)
- Re: Eliminate annoying color filter dialog Maynard, Chris (Mar 08)
- Re: Eliminate annoying color filter dialog Guy Harris (Mar 10)
- Re: Eliminate annoying color filter dialog Anders Broman (Mar 08)
- Re: Eliminate annoying color filter dialog Chris Maynard (Mar 08)
- Re: Eliminate annoying color filter dialog Jaap Keuter (Mar 09)
- Re: Eliminate annoying color filter dialog Stig Bjørlykke (Mar 09)
- Re: Eliminate annoying color filter dialog Chris Maynard (Mar 09)
- Re: Eliminate annoying color filter dialog Jeff Morriss (Mar 09)
- Re: Eliminate annoying color filter dialog Chris Maynard (Mar 09)