Another thing I think many users would find useful would be "Profiles".
A Profile would be a set of
Preferences/ColorFilters/CaptureFilters/Displayfilters
and one should be able to select which profile to use when starting up
Ethereal.
This would make it easier for those users that commonly work with several
different types of captures/protocols and which
use different Preference/filter/etc settings based on what kind of protocol
being worked with.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Biot Olivier"
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:08 AM
Subject: [Ethereal-dev] RFC: add support for multiple open captures
> Hi list,
>
> As I understood from some mails on the list, some people are looking for
> development work :) I think one big accomplishment would be to support
> multiple open captures. This will require a rethink of the global
variables
> used throughout the code. (maybe we want a file declaring all global
> variables for *any* Ethereal UI, or say the Ethereal core).
>
> Also, we may want to invest some time in evaluating whether we could make
> the protocol dissectors multithreading-safe (which is not the case today
as
> many protocol dissectors track state with global and/or local static
> variables). This of course *if* we require the dissection library to be
> MT-safe (which we may want to do if we support multiple files).
>
> As a minimum we should describe the current status of Ethereal, and then
> come up with a ToDo list based on this state.
>
> Looks useful? Looks feasible?
>
> Regards,
>
> Olivier
>
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