I'm afraid I must disagree. In my work I use ethereal daily,
often launching many captures in quick succession. For this,
the combination of the "Show capture options" and "Start capture"
buttons is a great timesaver.
In my experience, the buttons in a new (to the user) UI are seldom
if ever "intuitive." Instead, with the accumulation of experience
(perhaps aided initially by tooltips) the user is trained to recognize
the meaning of particular icons -- for my own part, I rely as much on
the relative position of the icon/button as its image.
This discussion reminds me a bit of how many words the Eskimos have
for snow, or the Hawaiians for lava. Ethereal is a network capture
and analysis utility, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to me to devote
a couple of buttons to various aspects of capture control.
And after all, if you really desire a multi-click interface, the
menu bar is still there.
regards, Eric
Eric,
Bluearc Engineering
-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lars Ruoff
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 5:19 AM
To: Ethereal development
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Preference dialog size
I agree with Joerg here.
I'm coaching a group of about 10 persons that use Ethereal regurlarly (but
not daily), but almost all of them stumble when it comes to quickly
launching the capture since the time the GUI changed to 3 buttons.
Experience shows that these persons (myself included) need between 2 and 3
clicks (with errors) in average to get the capture running.
So finally it's worse than when we were forced to *exactly* two clicks as it
was before :-) and by the way we came accross the options page.
The icons are not very intuitive and having 3 quick buttons is more likely
to spread confusion than to simplify the GUI.
IMHO,
Lars
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joerg Mayer" <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ethereal development" <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Preference dialog size
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:14:26AM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> > Well, who is actually using: "Vertical scrollbar placement"?!?
>
> > I've never seen this option in any other program I know, so is this
> > really necessary / a good idea?
>
> I am :-) xterm and konsole have this nice feature too.
>
> > capturing and others reported to use the third one, so which one would
> > you like to remove?
>
> All but the original one, that pops up the options page.
>
> Ciao
> Joerg
> --
> Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
> works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
>
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