Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] show hostname in window title - feature/patch submission

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Hi List!

I'm unsure if we should add this feature now. This seems to be an often 
requested feature, but with some different mechanism ideas to implement it.

As this feature will affect overall Ethereal usability (at least in a 
way), we should have to think about the general way this should be dealt 
with.

For example some things comes to my mind:

a) putting the hostname to the window title will be pretty useless on 
win32, as you don't use an X server here (so this will only be 
interesting with VM-Ware or such, but that's quite a different thing).
So i don't see any reason to add such a preference for win32 platforms 
(and having a preference only on some platforms also isn't nice).

b) adding another command line parameter will keep it up to the user to 
solve the idea where to get the required info from, how to encapsulate 
white space and alike

c) putting the capture interface name into the window title will make it 
complicated on win32, as we also have to decide which format of the 
interface should be used (the devicename is really unreadable/unusable)


I hope this makes it some more obvious, why I don't see a quick and easy 
way to handle this. There might be even more things to think about, 
before we find a clean solution.


What I really would like to avoid, is an "incremental" implementation of 
this (so adding some small things every new release), as that's 
confusing to the users and not a nice way to deal with the users.

Regards, ULFL