Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] global colorfilters,cfilters and dfilters files?

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From: kem <kem@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:41:41 -0500
My $.02 here. i have several color blind people I work with and Colorizing can really throw them off, so a default color filter would really mess them up.
Guy, couldn't you add some sample filters to the web page? it would be simpler than adding them to the distro and would be available when needed. 

Just a thought
Kevin
On Wednesday, Feb 19, 2003, at 15:41 US/Eastern, Guy Harris wrote:




I'm also interested to know if there has been any more discussions
regarding adding default colors as was discussed -long- time ago on this list. Was it any reason for not implementing it (except from the problem on 
deciding colors...)?


It wouldn't make sense for Ethereal to supply a default color filter
list, given that

	1) some users won't want colors at all (and there *is* a cost to
	   doing coloring - if you're doing coloring, Ethereal has to
	   construct a protocol tree for every packet when reading the
	   capture in)

and

	2) not all users will necessarily want the same colors.

Supplying a *sample* color filter file, which is *not* installed as a
default color filter file (e.g., install it in the configuration
directory as "colorfilters.sample"), might make sense.  Supplying
*multiple* color filter sample files might also make sense.