Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 12218] New: Expert Information UI unusable in the new GUI
| Bug ID |
12218
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| Summary |
Expert Information UI unusable in the new GUI
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| Product |
Wireshark
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| Version |
2.0.2
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| Hardware |
x86-64
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| OS |
Windows 7
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| Status |
UNCONFIRMED
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| Severity |
Normal
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| Priority |
Low
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| Component |
GTK+ UI
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| Assignee |
bugzilla-admin@wireshark.org
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| Reporter |
elof@mailinator.com
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Build Information:
Version 2.0.2 (v2.0.2-0-ga16e22e from master-2.0)
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TLDR; Revert the "Expert Info" window back to the old style.
This is not a bug per say, but the new layout in the new GUI (v2.x) makes the
Expert Information window pretty much unusable.
Something that was working that has become unusable is "broken", and hence I
create a bug.
Scenario:
In new networks I usually capture 500 000 packets to see if I find anyting
strange.
One of the routine steps is to check the "Expert Information" so see if
Wireshark has spotted something noteworthy.
In the old GUI, I simply clicked each tab (Errors, Warnings, Notes, Chat) and
then sorted based on count.
Quick and easy to spot odd things.
With the new v2.x GUI, you can't sort the actual data!
You can only sort the uppermost categories (severity/group/protocol/count).
My current 500 000 packets from a random network generates
Severity Group Proto Count
Error Malformed TCP 17830
Error Malformed mDNS 2416
Error Malformed HTTP 129
...and a few more...
Warn Sequence TCP 85233
Warn Malformed LDAP 25
...etc...
...etc...
...etc...
When I expand the "Warn Sequence TCP", I see a long long long list of
85233 issues.
There's no way to sort them or group them together! :-(
So If I want to see all the "TCP Window Zero" warnings, I have to scroll
through 85 thousand lines and manually spot them, hiding between thousands of
"ACKed segment that wasn't captured (common at capture start)", "This frame is
a (suspected) out-of-order segment", "Connection reset (RST)", etc.
I want to simply sort the data based on count, so I can see that there were 88
"TCP Window Zero" warnings, 1439 "ACKed segment that wasn't captured (common at
capture start)", 79822 "This frame is a (suspected) out-of-order segment", and
so on.
The old window with separate tabs for each category, with grouping & sorting
for the actual data in it, is much better. Please revert back to it.
/Elof
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