Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal binary for Sharp Zaurus (fwd)

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:57:21 -0600 (CST)
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Guy Harris wrote:

> +Qtopia, or +Qtopia +GTK+-on-the-frame-buffer or something such as that?
> 
> If the former, that presumably means that he's done at least some of the
> work to give it a Qt user interface, which might be usable as the basis
> for
> 
> 	1) a KDE version of Ethereal;
> 
> 	2) a Qt version of Ethereal which could use Qt on Windows and
> 	   MacOS X.

>From reading through the sources and the "mklibzethereal" script, it
looks like he's building Ethereal's object files into a library and using
that.  GTK+ doesn't appear to be involved.  


> The zethereal UI is probably optimized for a handheld, so it might be
> usable as the basis for other handheld UIs (e.g., Windows CE using the
> experimental WinPcap-for-CE, other toolkits for UNIX handhelds), but
> might not be what you'd want on a desktop or notebook PC, so if it has a
> Qt-based UI, that wouldn't directly translate to a Qt-for-a-non-small-
> screen-machine UI.
>