My $.02 here. i have several color blind people I work with and
Colorizing can really throw them off, so a default color filter would
really mess them up.
Guy, couldn't you add some sample filters to the web page? it would be
simpler than adding them to the distro and would be available when
needed.
Just a thought
Kevin
On Wednesday, Feb 19, 2003, at 15:41 US/Eastern, Guy Harris wrote:
I'm also interested to know if there has been any more discussions
regarding adding default colors as was discussed -long- time ago on
this
list. Was it any reason for not implementing it (except from the
problem on
deciding colors...)?
It wouldn't make sense for Ethereal to supply a default color filter
list, given that
1) some users won't want colors at all (and there *is* a cost to
doing coloring - if you're doing coloring, Ethereal has to
construct a protocol tree for every packet when reading the
capture in)
and
2) not all users will necessarily want the same colors.
Supplying a *sample* color filter file, which is *not* installed as a
default color filter file (e.g., install it in the configuration
directory as "colorfilters.sample"), might make sense. Supplying
*multiple* color filter sample files might also make sense.