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

["Martin Regner" <martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:
>
> I think, it's confusing that:
>
> a.) you first have to understand that there are two different filter
> "worlds" one for ethereal display and the other for libpcap capturing.
>
> b.) and then get the idea at which button/entry you have to enter which
> filter syntax, as the dialogs are really looking quite similar.
>
> Hmmmm, after thinking a bit about this, it's maybe a good idea to call
> the display filter just like they were called before (e.g. "Filter:"),
> as they appear "often" on the screen and one could see this as the
> "normal" case.
>
> As the capture filter appears a lot less on the screen (only in the
> capture dialog), it should be clearly marked as such. This should be a
> different
> button label "Capture Filter:" and a big remark on the capture filter
> dialog, so one could see this as the "special" case.

I agree. I think it is best to use "Filter:" for display filters and
"Capture Filter:" in the Capture dialogue.