["Ulf Lamping" <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Hi List!

As I'm working on the toolbar en-/disable preference feature, I'm asking myself (and some of my friends have the same opinion), if the current menu structure is really intuitive for common users.

The top menu items File/Edit/Capture/Tools/Help seems to be Ok, but the Display menu item is questionable IMHO (corresponding to the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines?).

The following items are currently in the Display menu item:

-Options
-Match
-Prepare
-Colorize Display
-Collapse All
-Expand All
-Show Packet in New window
-User Specified Decodes


I would suggest the following:

Renaming the menu item "Display" to "View" and move it to the left, so it will look like: File/Edit/View/Capture/Tools/Help as that is somewhat more common to normal users, I think.

And then change the following menu entries: Move "Colorize display" to the Edit menu item (as it's very similar to Display Filters, and I would expect it there!)

After that, we could move the "Tools->Decode As" item to View, and remove the "User Specified Decodes" item completely.


I don't want to start a flame war on this, but when I observe new Ethereal users, they are often confused using the menu.

I'm interested, if this is only "my own problem", or if others are experience similar problems, and we should search for a good solution on this topic(s).


Regards, ULFL
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