Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] A description of Wireshark

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/14/15 21:00, Fulko Hew wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     On 01/12/2015 04:08 PM, Jaap Keuter wrote:
>
>
> ... snip ...
>
>     Here's my latest attempt; it's still a bit wordy but I like the idea
>     of advertising just how great Wireshark is.  Of course the first bit
>     comes from the website's About page.
>
>         +Wireshark is the world's foremost protocol analyzer.
>         +
>         +It allows you to examine data from a stored protocol capture
>         file or as it is
>         +captured from live wired or wireless (WiFi or Bluetooth)
>         networks, USB
>         +devices, and many other sources.  It supports dozens of
>         protocol capture file
>         +formats and understands more than a thousand protocols.
>
>
> How about this slightly more simplified paragraph:
>
> It allows you to examine previously captured data stored in files, or
> live data
> from wired or wireless (WiFi or Bluetooth) networks, USB devices and many
> other sources. It supports dozens of capture file formats and understands
> more than a thousand protocols.

Thanks--I incorporated some of that into the latest version (visible on 
the change in Gerrit).