Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Display filter button text

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:20:34 -0800
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:59:57PM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> That was a suggestion from me, as I think it's not obvious what the
> buttons mean. 

The buttons serve two purposes:

	1) they're labels for the text field to the right;

	2) they let you pop up a dialog box to let you select saved
	   filters or, in the case of Ethereal filters rather than
	   libpcap filters, to let you select a field on which to
	   filter.

To which of those are you referring?  I.e., is it not obvious what you
put in the text field, or is it not obvious what clicking the button
will do, or is neither of those obvious?

> Former, all filter buttons are labelled "Filter", regardless if they
> refer to display or capture filters. 
> 
> It might be an idea, to label the more often display filter ones
> simply "Filter...", and the capture filter buttons something more
> descriptive like "Capture Filter...". 

Isn't that obvious from the context?  Or is the problem that it's not
obvious that libpcap filters and Ethereal filters are different?