[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:52:17AM -0400, Eckert, Christopher wrote:
> This would be a good default option if any of the developers are listening

First of all, there's no "this" - nobody specified a set of colors, so
there's no set of colors to *make* the default.  The mere fact that
person A likes a certain set of colors doesn't mean that person B would
like them - person B might want different colors, or might want a
different set of protocols to be colored, or might not want things
colored *at all* by default (I don't want auto-coloring when *I* run
Ethereal).

Second of all, coloring packets slows doen the process of loading
capture files; - color filters require that a protocol tree be
constructed for each packet when loading the file, in order to evaluate
the filter expression, and that slows the loading process down - so
coloring packets by default would impose a cost on people who don't care
about the colors.