From: "Guy Harris" Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Lack of close button on Conversation windows
> > On Oct 29, 2003, at 4:30 PM, Joe Patterson wrote: > > > Something I just noticed, which may be present in other places. If > > you open > > a capture (haven't tested this on any other platforms, yet, just > > 0.9.15 on > > W2K), and open one of the "Conversations" statistics windows, that > > window > > has no close button, and if you hit the windows close X, it exits > > ethereal > > entirely. This seems non-optimal. Anyone else notice this? > > No. I just tried the current CVS version on Mac OS X 10.3, and I can > dismiss it by clicking the "X" jellybean^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbutton and > the window closes without Ethereal crashing (if Ethereal exits as a > result of anything other than File->Quit or the main window's close > button, it's probably a crash). > > This might be a UNIX+X vs. Windows thing, or it might be a bug fixed > since 0.9.15. I think it was a bug in how I handled GTK that was only triggered, or at least showed that behaviour, on windows. The behaviour that ethereal terminated when a conversation window was closed under windows dissapeared some weeks ago in the CVS version. I dont know exactly what change fixed this behaviour but it doesnt happen for me anymore. > > A "Close" button might be useful, however. Ronnie? I will add one tomorrow.
