[Ed Warnicke <hagbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there a reason that many of the ethereal gui preferences ( and the 
resolver preferences ) are being handled in a rather hard coded way 
and not being dealt with through the normal preference module mechanism
like the preferences for dissectors?  

The "prefs" symbol seems to be the last one running loose in libethereal
that comes from outside of the epan directory ( other than the cleanly
defined service libraries like libc, glib, and libwiretap ).

Looking at the situation it seems to me that the correct course of
action would be to eliminate the e_prefs type and have the gui ( and 
resolver ) register their preferences with the prefs system like
everything else.  Then the prefs system could be cleanly moved into epan
and epan would be separable from ethereal.

Anyone have any thougts on this?

Ed

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