Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Is it time to make Wireshark a native Mac OS X application?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 20, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote:

> I'd like to see a Qt (or some other toolkit) frontend for wireshark,  
> as there
> are tools to build the (looks of the) gui instead of having to  
> program every
> detail of it.
	http://glade.gnome.org/

or am I missing something here?

> 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 don't think it'd be a good thing if somebody implemented, say, a  
bounce diagram tap for {GUI toolkit X} and somebody else would have to  
completely rewrite it for {GUI toolkit Y}; perhaps competition between  
two bounce diagram taps would be good, but that's possible even if we  
base Wireshark only on one toolkit.
> While we are on the topic of guis: We currently have two:
> tshark and gtk2.
We have two UIs, one of which is a GUI and one of which is a command- 
line UI.  TShark isn't a GUI app, and isn't supposed to be.  It reads  
the capture file only once; if we get to the point where we can read  
capture files from pipes, that could be a useful capability.