Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark-qt : Capture Interfaces

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From: Anders Broman <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:27:09 +0000

 

 

From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graham Bloice
Sent: den 26 november 2013 14:45
To: Alexis La Goutte; Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark-qt : Capture Interfaces

 

On 26 November 2013 13:16, Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I push yesterday the work of Thomas (GSoC'13 Students) about add captures interfaces window dialog for Wireshark-qt.

It is a first "draft" of new captures interfaces,  only display the list of interface and select for launch capture, options don't (yet) work.

We would like your comments / opinion / review... (and also patch !) about this new dialog window.
The idea is replace "Interface list" and (big) Capture options  by only 1 window/dialog.

 

For people, who don't have Qt in your machine, i attach a screenshot of GUI.

 

 

Just some general observations:

 

1. Could the Promiscuous Mode column contain check-boxes so that each interface can be set as required without having to go into an interface specific dialog?  The main promiscuous mode check-box should be labelled as setting promiscuous mode on *all* interfaces or similar.

 

2.  The Capture enable check-boxes seem to be a carry over from the GTK version.  Another approach is to drop the column and check-boxes and make the rows multi-select so that the user just selects the rows for the interfaces they wish to capture on.

 

3.  Make some space for the "capture on all interfaces" check-box that the GTK version has?

 

4. Somewhat similar to 1, can the cells for the Interface name and Snaplen be made editable if clicked so that the user can modify values directly without having to go to another dialog.  Maybe that would just make this dialog too busy and does belong in a configure dialog somewhere.

 

It looks a great start anyway.

 

While there it would be nice to get some of the details  available on Windows in there as well, especially information about offloading. It should be possible to get (at least some of) it on Linux systems as well.

See enclosed picture.

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