Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5279] Replace "Mark All Displayed Packets (toggle)" with "

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:17:44 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5279

--- Comment #6 from Chris Maynard <christopher.maynard@xxxxxxxxx> 2010-10-06 11:17:44 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> Currently mark/unmark all packets actually means mark/unmark all displayed
> packets. I think we best keep it that way. 
> 
Actually, it doesn't.  "Unmark all packets" really does unmark *ALL* packets,
whether they are displayed or not.

Currently there is no option to only unmark all displayed packets and to leave
the non-displayed marked packets alone.  I think this makes it rather confusing
because there's no complement to "Mark all displayed packets", although I think
maybe that was the intent of the "Mark All Displayed Packets (toggle)" option,
except that doesn't really do what you would think it would do.

> I would vote for just adding "Invert Marking of Displayed Packets"
> 
> With all of the above one can do all marking/unmarking and inverting of marks
> of *ALL* packets by just removing the display filter.
> 
> But that's my vote, others might vote for adding 4 more marking options instead
> of 1.

Whichever way yields the best overall functionality and so long as it's clear
and unambiguous as to how the packets will be marked/unmarked and to which set
(displayed or not) it will apply.

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