Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Graphical plugins
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Stan Derry wrote:
Are there any graphical plugins similar to Etherape's or Compuware's
ApplicationVantage (formerly Application Expert)?
There are currently no plugins that do graphics; there are "tap
listener" plugins, but, currently, there's no mechanism to have tap
listener plugins labeled as "requires GTK+" vs. "doesn't require GTK+"
(so that Tethereal would load only the latter - it's not a graphical
application, so it doesn't include the GTK+ library, and it wouldn't
make sense to load graphical plugins in Tethereal), and there's no
"generic" graphics layer for plugins that would be a stub in Tethereal
(and Tethereal would have to know what plugins are graphical even with
that, so that they can't be specified with "-z").
A way of distinguishing GUI from non-GUI "tap listener" plugins would be
useful, e.g. putting the GUI tap listeners into a subdirectory of the
main directory for plugins.
