Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Feature Request: Unify Conversations and Conversation List di

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From: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 13:05:45 +0200
On 5/9/05, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Would it be possible to unify the Conversations and Conversation List
> >dialogs such that for example Conversation List - Ethernet shows the
> >same dialog as Conversations but automatically selects the Ethernet
> >tab?
> >
> >
> >
> The current behaviour is intentional.
> 
> As bringing up these statistics will decrease performance (only
> slightly, but you'll notice it with very big capture files) for each
> kind of conversation.

Only the row counts in the tabs need to be determined before clicking
on a tab, right?
What about not showing those counts when you use the Conversation List
- Ethernet (for example) option?
 
> So the combined dialogs will be slower than only open a single one.
> 
> If this performance penalty wouldn't be the case, I'd completely removed
> the whole "Conversation List" and "Endpoint List" entries already some
> time ago.
> 
> Regards, ULFL
>