Wireshark mailing list archives
Re: Bug 7506: Analyze->Apply as Filter and Analyze->Prepare a Filter cause crashes
From: Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:17:02 -0400
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Bill Meier <wmeier () newsguy com> wrote:
It appears that this bug has existed for a while and has just recently been reported by a user. IOW: maybe accessing the 'Apply as Filter' and 'Prepare a Filter' functionality via the 'Analyze' dropdown isn't used much. So: Given that there's already a lot of choices on the 'Analyze' drop-down, perhaps we should consider just removing these items (as well as 'Apply as Column' ?) from the 'Analyze' drop-down. Obviously the functionality would continue to be accessible via the context menu attached to fields in the packet-details pane. Opinions ?
Frankly, the "Analyze" menu in general has always confused me: - The name makes me think of running statistical analysis on the capture, but we also have a "Statistics" menu. - Many of the items in it apply only to the selected packet and are also in the context menu, but some (such as Expert Info) apply to the whole capture. - Some options (such as "Colorize with Filter") which are grouped in the context menu with "Apply as Filter" and "Prepare a Filter" don't even show up under "Analyze" even though all of their neighbors do. I feel like the entire menu needs a re-think. Here's one option, but I'm sure there are better ones: - Rename "Analyze" -> "Filter" - Move "Expert Info" to "Statistics" - Move "Enabled Protocols" to "Internals" - Add "Colorize with Filter" to the "Filter" menu. Other misc. things that have bubbled up into my head as I've been thinking about this: - Rename "Apply as column" to "Create column from selected" which seems clearer to me - Merge "Apply as filter" and "Prepare a filter" somehow - they're so close in functionality that it feels like too much duplication. My vote would probably just be to drop "Apply as filter", since it's one extra click after "Prepare a filter" to hit "Apply". The remaining item could then be renamed "Create filter from..." to match "Create column from selected"? Thoughts? ___________________________________________________________________________ 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: Bug 7506: Analyze->Apply as Filter and Analyze->Prepare a Filter cause crashes Bill Meier (Jul 24)
- Re: Bug 7506: Analyze->Apply as Filter and Analyze->Prepare a Filter cause crashes Evan Huus (Jul 24)