Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Second 0.10.7 prerelease available

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:05:54 +0200
Eric Wedel wrote:

Thanks, Ulf, that fixes it.

Happily I discovered that capture filters aren't kept in the prefs
file, so I had no reason to keep the old one.
Yes, capture filters are kept in the cfilters file.

If you are interested in more info of the configuration files, have a look at the user's guide: "Appendix A. Configuration Files and
Folders"

Seems a little odd though, that is simply an old prefs file --
newer ethereals ought to have some way of coping with it.
[iirc, I've _never_ set a font attribute, so it must have been
filled in by an older ethereal version.]
Yes, as I tried to explain, this is a bug of the default name filled into the preferences file (only for GTK1 versions) I've fixed for upcoming 0.10.7. As this is a problem only GTK1 and only if you didn't have a preferences file before and the dialog gives you a direction what to do, I won't implement a way to surround that bug. If a lot of others complain, I might change my mind on this ...

Still trying to figure out the best place to post comments on gtk.
Yes, that can be a hard to realize where to post.

I will put the following into the dev-guide, so it might be a bit generalized and too long for your specific case.
-----------------

   <section id="ChUIGTKWeb">
   <title>GTK resources on the web</title>
   <para>
   You can find several resources about GTK.
   </para>
   <para>
   First of all, have a look at: <ulink url="http://www.gtk.org"/> as this
   will be the first place to look at. If you want to develop GTK related
   things for Ethereal, the most important place might
   be the GTK API documentation at: <ulink url="http://gtk.org/api/"/>.
   </para>
   <para>
   Several mailing lists are available about GTK development, see <ulink
   url="http://gtk.org/mailinglists.html"/>, the gtk-app-devel-list
   may be you friend.
   </para>
   <para>
   Theres no Win32 specific GTK mailing list. If you want to post
   a Win32 specific problem (e.g. a problem in the GtkFileChooser dialog)
   and you are sure that it's really win32 specific, you
   could send it to GIMPwin-users at <ulink
   url="http://www.gimp.org/mail_lists.html"/>.
   </para>
   <para>
As it's often done wrong: You should post a mail to *help* the developers there instead of only complaining. Posting such a thing like "I don't like your dialog, it looks ugly" won't be much helpful. You might think about
   what you dislike and describe why you dislike it and a suggestion for a
   better way.
   </para>
   </section>

Regards, ULFL