Didn't know it slowed it down! Still, of the 13 Network Engineers and 20
something helpdesk people I have that I must make comfortable with Ethereal,
Almost all like being able to separate the protocols visually. Right or
wrong, my job is making them comfortable enough with the system to want to
use it. I still am fighting with the fact that they are more comfortable
with another, commercial name deleted, interface.
If I can apply a single file to make a single color set be used then I can
color the protocols they have to look for most often and make the coloring
the same on every machine. If this will make them more comfortable using
Ethereal at first then it is a good thing.
So we are sort of back to the question asked by Cedric. Are the color
settings handled within a single file and if so which file is that? I might
note here that I have no intention of applying it to the devices I am using
for capture. Only the real hefty machines being used to open and evaluate
trace files passed to them by field techs
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 3:02 PM
To: Eckert, Christopher
Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Colors setting for Ethereal ?
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.