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

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From: "Lars Ruoff" <lars.ruoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:40:00 +0100
> I think it would make much more sense to users to group them by type
instead
> of by an artificial layering model
> 1, stick all the telco taps down in a .../Telco  submenu
> 2, stick Host List and Conversation List down in a ../Traffic submenu.
> Maybe also stick IO-Stat down there.
> 3, leave ServiceResponseTime (which supprots protocols from several
layers)
> on its own top level item.
> etc.

Yes.
I will state my opinions from a user point of view here:
Please, at all cost avoid putting terms froms protocol layers (more genrally
speaking any terms that deal with protocol analysis details) on the top
level menu - that's horrible IMHO!
And i see nothing wrong in searching the menus by function/group of
functions rather than by protocols.
There are many cases in my environment, where users only really know the top
level protocol, but often they want to access functions that lower level
protocols offer (but they're not aware of that). I dont know if these people
would look in the right places then.
In other words, at the risk that some people will call me hostile to
changes: Personally i prefer as it was in 0.10.0!
Lars Ruoff