Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Typing in lists

From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:47:32 +0100
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 02:12:25PM +0400, Abhik Sarkar wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I wanted to know if anyone else is facing this problem before I open a
> bug report...
> 
> I am at revision 24663 and I find that unlike earlier, I can't type
> complete words to make selections in list. E.g. If I go Edit >
> Preferences > Protocols and then click the list and try to type
> "http", I can only type "h" , the first item starting with "h" is
> selected and the UI then blocks for a while (what appears to be 10s).
> This is happening for any lists ('Decode As', for example).

There is already a bug opened for this issue. It seems to be an
issue within GTK for which a bug has been filed too.

See:

http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2325
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520165

Cheers,
    Sake