Ethereal-dev: RE: [ethereal-dev] Feature Set for 1.0

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From: "Dan Warburton" <warb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:06:57 -0500


> I just started ghosting on this list.

>>"Ghosting"?

YES

> Help
>   -- Help Topics ( invokes html browser )

Good idea - which browser would it invoke?

Generally this is a configurable item. When invoked before it has been
configured
it pops a dialog box up requesting a path the the binary, saves the
configuration and
invokes the binary.

That'd also involve actually writing the help text, of course....

>   -- About  (Give yourselves some credit and list the output of
> ethereal -v )

>>It's already there (and has been for ages).

Yes, don't know how I missed it, sorry.

> Also,
>   - a default color scheme for packets included with the release.

>>I don't know whether there's a default color scheme that everybody'd
>>like.  I personally prefer defaulting to Boring Old Black And White, and
>>setting color filters myself on occasion.

Well, I agree the default should be B&W. What I should have said is, ship
a display color scheme or two that could be used...