Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] show hostname in window title - feature/patch submission
Seems a lot of people would like the feature but it is unclear exactly
how the feature should work.
Why not just add the '-C' flag that someone else suggested as a short
term solution and let whatever that flag specifies replace the '-
Ethereal' string on the main window.
Then the users can decide themself how and what they want specified as
the title and we dont have to worry about policy.
-C could, for extra useability take a format string where we let
%h represent the hostname
%H the FQDN of the host
etc but that could be added later.
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:18:59 +0100, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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