Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 6, 2012, at 5:46 PM, gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Use a different "close" button in the main toolbar. It looks better but
> is still wrong (on OS X at least).

As long as we're playing with the toolbar:

I've always found the icon on the "start a capture" button a bit non-obvious.  I guess it's supposed to be an image of a plug-in network adapter card for some parallel bus (although that's not the first thing that comes to mind when I look at it), but:

	1) the sorts of machines on which a lot of people run Wireshark have built-in network adapters

and

	2) even a lot of the add-on adapters out there plug into serial buses (USB, PCI Express/Thunderbolt)

so a "conventional PCI" card might be an out-of-date icon these days, and, in addition, a number of the other sniffers I've seen use the CD player "start" (right-pointing triangle, pick your color), "stop" (square, probably red or black), and, in some cases, "pause" (two parallel vertical lines) icons for the capture buttons.

("Pause" means "don't receive packets, but, if you click the pause button again, continue capturing with the same options, without discarding or saving the already-captured packets.")