All,
Richard's right. Putting the doodad together I was concerned that nice GUI
stuff have two potential issues.
1. Taking away CPU from important stuff.
2. Making the interface cluttered.
I think #1 can be solved by trying to not two the same thing twice, storing
useful data for future use. (Trade off with memory here). Also giving
control back to Gtk regularly I think is good idea to give the user
responsiveness.
#2 could be solved by the View menu Richard mentioned. Also if I add say a
traffic graphing widget I would probably allow you to use the Notebook
widget to so you can select the different graphs you wish displayed.
Martin
Martin Visser
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Sharpe [mailto:sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, 15 November 2000 7:06 PM
To: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Managing the display and what is displayed ...
Hi,
Martin Visser's interesting extensions to Ethereal suggest that we need to
start doing something about managing the display ...
Users might want to be able to specify that the be able to see only the
summary pane, or all three panes as we currently see them, or only the pane
that Martin has introduced, or a pane that shows the packets per second and
bytes per second in a graphical form, and so on ...
This suggests that we might want a View menu with a few buttons on it, and
so forth ...
I think that this might take some time to actually do, and I only want to
talk about it now, because I want to spend some more time on my dissector
generator later this week (after I get a couple of articles written for
LinuxWorld etc).
Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba
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