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Re: UI Proposal for better Analysis for Android devices
From: Anders Broman <a.broman58 () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:54:28 +0100
Den 31 dec 2015 14:30 skrev "Graham Bloice" <graham.bloice () trihedral com>:
On 31 December 2015 at 11:35, Bálint Réczey <balint () balintreczey hu>
wrote:
2015-12-31 0:10 GMT+01:00 Anders Broman <a.broman58 () gmail com>:Den 30 dec 2015 17:01 skrev "Graham Bloice" <
graham.bloice () trihedral com>:
On 30 December 2015 at 10:52, VIKRAM VENKATESH HEGDE <vikram.h () samsung com> wrote:Hi, Sure, will submit the feature in patches may be will start doing so
by
next week. Thanks for the support. Thanks & Regards, VikramFWIW, I have a different opinion than Anders regarding the UI. Qt
"is"
the Wireshark UI toolkit, GTK is legacy, and Qt is better supported
on our
target platforms, especially OSX. I think any new UI development
should be
for Qt first, then if developer cycles are available, it can be
ported to
GTK.As I understand it in this case the GTK code exist and the Qt does
not. Not
accepting it would slow progress and accepting it might speed up the
port to
Qt and sort out any problems or design flaws early. IMHOI agree that we should not reject UI patches because they improve the
GTK+
implementation only. I would prefer having Wireshark development guided by users' needs and contributions rather than pushing devs' choices very hard [1]. Cheers, Balint [1] In Debian we have the social contract clarifying that: ... 4. Our priorities are our users and free software We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free software community. We will place their interests first in our priorities. We will support the needs of our users for operation in many different kinds of computing environments. ... ... (From: https://www.debian.org/social_contract)I'm not being hard-nosed about this, just trying to be practical. The
Flows analysis stuff (which looked really interesting to me at SharkFest) seems to be dead because of licencing issues and nobody seems to be stepping up to fix that,
In a volunteer project, any changes rely on the goodwill of the
volunteers, both internal and external, and developing code for a UI that we're stated an intention to drop for all (most, RH\Fedora exceptions??) platforms in the future and have dropped already for a major platform (OSX? AFAIK, they don't have a GTK version) is then asking someone else to step up for the porting effort, possibly reducing their ability to effect other improvements.
I don't think it's unfriendly or impolite to ask contributors to follow
the aims of the project if possible.
-- Graham Bloice
I basically agree but if the code isn't made public it's not possible to pick it up should the contributor decide porting to Qt is to hard and if there's licencing or other problems with the code it might be better to find that out now rather then after any effort is spent to port to Qt. I also stated that loosing the functionality will not stop us from deprecating gtk when the time comes which should be an incentive to do a qt version for those that want it. Just my 2 cents. Anders
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Current thread:
- UI Proposal for better Analysis for Android devices VIKRAM VENKATESH HEGDE (Dec 29)
- Re: UI Proposal for better Analysis for Android devices Anders Broman (Dec 30)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: UI Proposal for better Analysis for Android devices VIKRAM VENKATESH HEGDE (Dec 30)
- Re: UI Proposal for better Analysis for Android devices Graham Bloice (Dec 30)
- Re: UI Proposal for better Analysis for Android devices Anders Broman (Dec 30)
- Re: UI Proposal for better Analysis for Android devices Bálint Réczey (Dec 31)
- Re: UI Proposal for better Analysis for Android devices Graham Bloice (Dec 31)
- Re: UI Proposal for better Analysis for Android devices Anders Broman (Dec 31)
- Re: UI Proposal for better Analysis for Android devices Graham Bloice (Dec 30)