Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar
On Dec 7, 2012, at 8:01 PM, Evan Huus wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> For the Qt toolbar I created start and stop capture icons based on the
>> media player/recorder "record" (circle) and "stop" (square)
>> conventions[1][2]. "Record" makes more sense to me; we are recording
>> packets to disk after all. It also makes things easier if we ever get
>> around to adding a playback feature. My versions are
>> capture_start_24.png, capture_start_active_24.png, and
>> capture_stop_24.png in the "image" directory.
>
> +1
>
>> A media-player-ized "capture options" icon could be a record button with
>> a superimposed wrench. I'm not sure about the "interface list" or
>> "restart capture" buttons however.
>
> +1 for the "capture options" icon.
>
> I would suggest that (in qtshark) the entire "interface list" dialog
> be merged into the "capture options" dialog - there's a large amount
> of information duplicated between them and they do almost the same
> thing already. The dialog should generally be rethought at the same
> time, as the current "capture options" dialog is already quite busy --
> perhaps splitting it into tabs is the way to go? With the dialogues
Hi Evan,
the capture options dialog was rethought for 1.8 to support the
capturing from multiple interfaces. We wanted to clean things up
on the one hand side, don't change too much on the other.
So if you have concrete suggestions how to improve the capture
options dialog box, Irene and myself will be more than happy
to discuss it. Please provide some feedback.
Best regards
Michael
> merged we only need one icon, which can be the record button with a
> superimposed wrench.
>
> For "restart capture" I would think we should be using a record button
> with superimposed "refresh" circular arrow people know from web
> browsing. Perhaps the current "reload capture file" icon would be
> sufficient there?
>
>> At some point I was hoping to see if we could get Elliott Aldrich (who
>> made the current document icon and several interface icons) to create
>> updated versions of the main toolbar icons including the capture ones.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tango_icons#Media
>> [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Desktop_icons#Media
>>
>> On 12/7/12 6:38 AM, Maynard, Chris wrote:
>>> +1
>>>
>>> There was mention of these icons some time ago, but no changes were ever made: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201107/msg00092.html
>>>
>>> - Chris
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Harris [guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 4:08 AM
>>> To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar
>>>
>>> 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.")
>>>
>>
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