Yes, very much so! Can you not sleep, or are you just up very, very early?
Ian > Another thing I think many users would find useful would be "Profiles". > > A Profile would be a set of > Preferences/ColorFilters/CaptureFilters/Displayfilters > and one should be able to select which profile to use when starting up > Ethereal. > > This would make it easier for those users that commonly work with several > different types of captures/protocols and which > use different Preference/filter/etc settings based on what kind of protocol > being worked with. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Biot Olivier" > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:08 AM > Subject: [Ethereal-dev] RFC: add support for multiple open captures > > > > Hi list, > > > > As I understood from some mails on the list, some people are looking for > > development work :) I think one big accomplishment would be to support > > multiple open captures. This will require a rethink of the global > variables > > used throughout the code. (maybe we want a file declaring all global > > variables for *any* Ethereal UI, or say the Ethereal core). > > > > Also, we may want to invest some time in evaluating whether we could make > > the protocol dissectors multithreading-safe (which is not the case today > as > > many protocol dissectors track state with global and/or local static > > variables). This of course *if* we require the dissection library to be > > MT-safe (which we may want to do if we support multiple files). > > > > As a minimum we should describe the current status of Ethereal, and then > > come up with a ToDo list based on this state. > > > > Looks useful? Looks feasible? > > > > Regards, > > > > Olivier > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ethereal-dev mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ethereal-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-dev _______________________________________________ Ethereal-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-dev
