Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] The new save as dialog box looks good, but ...
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Biot Olivier wrote:
> | OK, it really looks like the "... but displayed packets only" really
> | applies to a number of the choices above, so it probably should be:
> |
> | [] Save only displayed packets
> |
> | However, since people really expect the displayed packets to
> | be saved, and
> | might not be aware that there are filtered packets that are
> | in the capture
> | but not displayed, perhaps we should say:
> |
> | [] Also save any packets not currently displayed
>
> To me this is confusing in the way that I (along with many other Ethereal
> users in their novice time) believed that "displayed" meant "visible in the
> UI" hence limiting the scope to the number of visible GtkCList rows in the
> "packet view" widget, which it isn't. I think it is more intuitive to talk
> about a filter always being used by default instead of packets being
> displayed or not as the latter allows more than one interpretation. But then
> we probably should take more time in introducing the filters in the manual
> :)
Hmmm, that is a valid criticism ... in which case, I guess it should be
[] Also save all packets currently filtered out
and make sure that the tooltip gives enough information so that the phrase
is understandable.
Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
