From: On Behalf Of Stephen Fisher
> restart the program? I don't think it should work the other
> way around
> though - the capture options screen feels more like per
> capture options
> to me.
That's exactly what I expected, the main Preferences is the general
default for all captures, and the capture dialog is a per-capture
chance to override.
From: On Behalf Of Ulf Lamping
> A slightly different question remains:
>
> Do we need these capture related Preference settings anymore
> as we have
> the recent file now?
To preserve the "general & per-capture override" mechanism, yes the
Preference settings are needed.
> A more "natural" approach to my eyes would be to save the interface
> settings (and alike) in the recent file ...
Design question; does Wireshark want the "general & per-capture
override" mechanism? Or a simpler, "repeat last capture" mechanism.
Personally I prefer the "general & per-capture". Usually I want the
same thing as last time, but every once in a while I want something
different, like to capture to ring buffers, or to turn live updating
off. I find the per-capture override very very handy.
> Unfortunately, this leaves the questions open how tshark should be
> working as it's only working with the settings in the
> Preferences file :-(
It's okay for a different app (even from the same family) to work
differently.
From: On Behalf Of Jaap Keuter
> The challanges are the way to:
[snip]
> 2. Find a way to incorporate the preference changes into the (possibly
> already changed) capture dialog.
Interesting. There's a conflict of operation between having the
changed preferences update the per-capture dialog, and the dialog
wanting to use the most recent settings.
Suggestion: have the per-capture load the last settings, but check the
preferences. If the preferences do not match, have an extra button to
update the dialog from the preferences instead.
..Stu