Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Statistics menu items, 2nd proposal

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From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:43:37 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Ulf Lamping wrote:

> >|
> >| Second proposal for the statistics menu:
> >|
> >| a) Renamed all appearances of (Watch Protocol) to (Statistics)
> >|
> >| b) Made two new toplevel menu items "Transport" and "Application"
> >| I very often heard about the distinction between the "generic"
> >transport
> >| layers and the application specifics layers.
> >
> >Looks promising!
> >
> >You opt for top-level menu items. I agree they are convenient (simple
> >to access). Another approach is to preserve the Analyze top-level menu
> >and create the submenus in it (would only require a minor patch to
> >gtk/menu.c)

I will have a look at this but one thing I hope is that we can achieve 
some stability in the UI soon. We have been going through a lot of change 
recently, and while I think a lot of it is for the better, I think it will 
be better for users if we stabilize this soon.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com