Now I have to type [Ctrl-Shift-P][p][r][o][RET][fw-arrow][t][c][TAB]
and I can modify TCAP's
prefs.
Tomorrow I'll have to:
[Ctrl-Shift-P][p][r][o][RET][fw-arrow][s][s][RET][fw-arrow][t][c][TAB]
for a keyboard animal like me that's a loss...
On the other hand I know that TCAP is an SS7 protocol so *I* would
look there, for someone that does not know what SS7 is how he would
ever know where to look.
SS7 is not a good example for this... if you do not know what's SS7
you probably won't see any SS7 traffic not even by accident, lest
you'll now or need to know what's TCAP. But my point is that
categorizing protocols can hide many of these from users.
The flat list is easy to search while for the categorized one you need
to know where the protocol belongs.
Luis
3/26/07, Jacques, Olivier (PD&E IT Test) <olivier.jacques@xxxxxx> wrote:
I'll second that!
Olivier.
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From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Morriss
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 16:05
To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Wireshark-dev] preference tree for SS7
Hi list,
I finally had a chance to look at the new feature from revision 21066:
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.py?view=rev&revision=21066
and see what it looks like if I put, say, all the SS7 dissectors'
preferences in one preference tree called "SS7". The result was a
little startling: I was able to put *21* dissectors' preferences in that
category:
ALCAP, ANSI BSMAP, ANSI MAP, BSSAP, BSSGP, CAMEL, GSM SMS UD, GSM_MAP,
INAP, ISUP, isup_thin, IUA, M2PA, M2UA, M3UA, MTP2, MTP3, SCCP, SUA,
TALI, TCAP
It looks good to me because I tend to think hierarchically and because I
don't like how long the current list of dissectors with preferences is
(too much scrolling before I find the one I want).
What does anyone else (especially signaling users) think? Any
objections?
Regards,
-Jeff
ps. Yes, I defined SS7 a bit loosely as "anything for transporting SS7
or which is (or was) transported over SS7". And yes, maybe I missed
some: each time I've gone through the list of preferences I found
another one...
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