Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] New View menu checkitem: "Colorize Packet List"

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From: "John McDermott" <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:32:38 -0700
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:18:06 +0200, Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Joreg,


On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 04:30:28AM +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote:

In the former way, one had to remove all the rules from the list or
bring the rules setting file out of the way (e.g. renaming it), which is
a bit annoying.



Checking / unchecking of the menu item will immediately enable / disable
the coloring of the packet list.


Nice addition! Now that we have it: Can we provide a default colouring
scheme please ;-)))
When I first did the color stuff I asked for suggestions. All I put in the default scheme was a red for tcp and a green for arp. These were designed to be close to what LanWatch used. LanWatch is/was a commercialization of some old DOS code from CMU and someone else. At one point it was called netwatch. Anyway, I got requests for schemes and comments that most folks seemed to want custom colorizations based on the project of the day. As a consequence, I abandoned my efforts to create a default color scheme. 

--john

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