On Sep 20, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote:
I'd like to see a Qt (or some other toolkit) frontend for wireshark,
as there
are tools to build the (looks of the) gui instead of having to
program every
detail of it.
http://glade.gnome.org/
or am I missing something here?
An in my opinion, the different GUIs don't have to do all the same
things:
It's called competition and hopefully will make all existing guis
better.
I don't think it'd be a good thing if somebody implemented, say, a
bounce diagram tap for {GUI toolkit X} and somebody else would have to
completely rewrite it for {GUI toolkit Y}; perhaps competition between
two bounce diagram taps would be good, but that's possible even if we
base Wireshark only on one toolkit.
While we are on the topic of guis: We currently have two:
tshark and gtk2.
We have two UIs, one of which is a GUI and one of which is a command-
line UI. TShark isn't a GUI app, and isn't supposed to be. It reads
the capture file only once; if we get to the point where we can read
capture files from pipes, that could be a useful capability.