Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] global colorfilters,cfilters and dfilters fi les?
I would only reiterate what I said in the earlier thread: A seperate
global colorfilter file is useful for the following reasons:
It allows default colouring, many situations would benefit from this,
even if several did not.
It protects the default colours from corruption when temporary filters
are added and edited.
It serves as eye candy.
Colours help (most people) differentiate the packets of interest. There
seem to be two types of Ethereal users. One set (like me) don't touch
color filters. For them a set of standard colours is useful. Others use
color filters as day-to-day diagnostic aids. They probably don't use a
set of standard colours because they would get in the way every time
they used the color filters dialogs. However a set of global color
filters would allow them to edit the user filters freely, and still
benefit from the standardised color scheme. People in the first group
would be much more likely to experiment with using colours for diagnosis
if they appreciated the benefits of colouring, and if they could mess
about without corrupting the standard scheme.
I don't have a strong opinion on how it should be distributed. As eye
candy maybe it would be best to install it and then allow it to be
disabled, but that is more work. - And requires choosing the best set of
filters. Nobody is going to agree.
If you don't install it as standard then you probably don't need an
editor either, since the user has to copy files around to get it to work
at all. If you do install it then you probably ought to have some
editing or file selection dialog within Ethereal.
The colorfilter file is small enough that we could ship several without
any bloat. Then if there are other candidates, put them on the web site.
I imagine there are going to be a small number of generally useful
files, several more specialised ones, and others that 99% of people find
horrible, (ever see the "hotdog stand" Windows colour scheme?) It seems
to me that a representative sample of the first two should be in the
distribution as samples, and the all of them should be on the web with
screen shots.
--
Richard Urwin, Private
"No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato."
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 February 2003 02:18
> To: kem
> Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] global colorfilters,cfilters
> and dfilters
> files?
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 04:41:41PM -0500, kem wrote:
> > Guy, couldn't you add some sample filters to the web page?
>
> Well, I'm not the only maintainer of the Web site (I wouldn't
> even call
> myself the *primary* maintainer - I'd say Gerald is), so anybody with
> CVS commit privileges could do that.
>
> If somebody has some sample filters (I don't - I don't use color
> filtering), we could pick a place to put them.
>
> However:
>
> > it would be simpler than adding them to the distro and would be
> > available when needed.
>
> ...I'm not sure whether it'd be better to have them on the Web site or
> to have them in the tarball; at least with the tarball you
> don't have to
> look for them on the Web site.
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