On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 01:17:21AM +0100, Erwin Rol wrote:
> Is a GTK-1 GUI still needed ? I mean all (WIN32 included) systems have
> the GTK-2 libs by now, don't they ?
"Have" in what sense?
Not all of them have it installed; I don't have it installed on most of
my systems at home - I tried, once, but it was a real pain getting all
the bits of software it needed installed and usable in the build
process. (I am running FreeBSD 3.4 on my main home machine, although if
we don't care about BSDs that old, I could probably upgrade at some
point.)
Also, there may still be performance issues with Ethereal using GTK+
2.x.
> I would like to see (and will not be to lazy to program it ;-) A
> interface a-la gimp , where the 3 parts of the main window are separate
> top level windows. This would make things easier for multi-monitor
> setups. In general a option where you can select the layout of the
> windows, top to bottom (like now) , multi-window etc. would be nice.
That's OK, as long as it's an *option*.
> Trying to follow the HIG http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/
> as much as possible might not be a bad thing.
We've been picking up at least some of the suggestions from there.
> What also would be very nice is being able to use proportional fonts but
> still draw them with a fixed width.
Are you certain that wouldn't look Really Strange?
> A way to compare two packets (like a file diff) would also be nice. For
> example comparing two packets and than display the differences in red or
> so.
That's on the wishlist, but without a specification as to what it means.
Are you talking about something that looks like a diff between the
protocol tree displays?