Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar

[Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org> wrote:
> For the Qt toolbar I created start and stop capture icons based on the
> media player/recorder "record" (circle) and "stop" (square)
> conventions[1][2]. "Record" makes more sense to me; we are recording
> packets to disk after all. It also makes things easier if we ever get
> around to adding a playback feature. My versions are
> capture_start_24.png, capture_start_active_24.png, and
> capture_stop_24.png in the "image" directory.

+1

> A media-player-ized "capture options" icon could be a record button with
> a superimposed wrench. I'm not sure about the "interface list" or
> "restart capture" buttons however.

+1 for the "capture options" icon.

I would suggest that (in qtshark) the entire "interface list" dialog
be merged into the "capture options" dialog - there's a large amount
of information duplicated between them and they do almost the same
thing already. The dialog should generally be rethought at the same
time, as the current "capture options" dialog is already quite busy --
perhaps splitting it into tabs is the way to go? With the dialogues
merged we only need one icon, which can be the record button with a
superimposed wrench.

For "restart capture" I would think we should be using a record button
with superimposed "refresh" circular arrow people know from web
browsing. Perhaps the current "reload capture file" icon would be
sufficient there?

> At some point I was hoping to see if we could get Elliott Aldrich (who
> made the current document icon and several interface icons) to create
> updated versions of the main toolbar icons including the capture ones.
>
>
> [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tango_icons#Media
> [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Desktop_icons#Media
>
> On 12/7/12 6:38 AM, Maynard, Chris wrote:
> > +1
> >
> > There was mention of these icons some time ago, but no changes were ever made: 
> > http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201107/msg00092.html
> >
> > - Chris
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Guy Harris [guy 
> > () alum mit edu]
> > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 4:08 AM
> > To: wireshark-dev () wireshark org
> > Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar
> >
> > On Dec 6, 2012, at 5:46 PM, gerald () wireshark org wrote:
> >
> > > Use a different "close" button in the main toolbar. It looks better but
> > > is still wrong (on OS X at least).
> >
> > As long as we're playing with the toolbar:
> >
> > I've always found the icon on the "start a capture" button a bit non-obvious.  I guess it's supposed to be an image 
> > of a plug-in network adapter card for some parallel bus (although that's not the first thing that comes to mind when 
> > I look at it), but:
> >
> >         1) the sorts of machines on which a lot of people run Wireshark have built-in network adapters
> >
> > and
> >
> >         2) even a lot of the add-on adapters out there plug into serial buses (USB, PCI Express/Thunderbolt)
> >
> > so a "conventional PCI" card might be an out-of-date icon these days, and, in addition, a number of the other 
> > sniffers I've seen use the CD player "start" (right-pointing triangle, pick your color), "stop" (square, probably 
> > red or black), and, in some cases, "pause" (two parallel vertical lines) icons for the capture buttons.
> >
> > ("Pause" means "don't receive packets, but, if you click the pause button again, continue capturing with the same 
> > options, without discarding or saving the already-captured packets.")
>
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