Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [RFC] Match and Prepare context menu itemnames

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 17:39:51 +1000
Sounds very good to me.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ulf Lamping"
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 5:34 PM
Subject: [Ethereal-dev] [RFC] Match and Prepare context menu itemnames


> Hi List!
>
> I'm thinking about renaming these entries.
>
> Currently, we have the context menu items named "Match" and "Prepare".
This is a bit short and not easy to understand.
>
> I would tend to rename it:
>
> Match   -> Apply as Filter
> Prepare -> Prepare a Filter
>
> Explanation:
> The term "Apply" is already used in the GUI, and better explains what will
be done (compared to "Match").
> Question: What's better: "Apply as Filter" or "Apply as Display Filter"?
>
>
> Selected         -> Selected
> Not Selected     -> Not Selected
> And Selected     -> ... and Selected
> Or Selected      -> ... or Selected
> And Not Selected -> ... and not Selected
> Or Not Selected  -> ... or not Selected
>
> Explanation:
> I want to distinguish "visually" between the subitems that replaces the
filter and the ones that will append to the existing string in the filter
text entry.
> Question: Any better term for ...?
>
>
> I've done some experiments in my personal source tree, and it's looking
much "easier" this way.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Regards, ULFL