https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16317
Bug ID: 16317
Summary: Option to change “Packet List” columns header right
click pop-up menu behavior.
Product: Wireshark
Version: 3.2.0
Hardware: x86-64
OS: Windows 10
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: Normal
Priority: Low
Component: Qt UI
Assignee: bugzilla-ad...@wireshark.org
Reporter: haxthau...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
Build Information:
Version 3.2.0 (v3.2.0-0-ge0ed4cfa3d72)
Copyright 1998-2019 Gerald Combs <ger...@wireshark.org> and contributors.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html> This is free software; see the
source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled (64-bit) with Qt 5.12.6, with WinPcap SDK (WpdPack) 4.1.2, with GLib
2.52.3, with zlib 1.2.11, with SMI 0.4.8, with c-ares 1.15.0, with Lua 5.2.4,
with GnuTLS 3.6.3 and PKCS #11 support, with Gcrypt 1.8.3, with MIT Kerberos,
with MaxMind DB resolver, with nghttp2 1.39.2, with brotli, with LZ4, with
Zstandard, with Snappy, with libxml2 2.9.9, with QtMultimedia, with AirPcap,
with SpeexDSP (using bundled resampler), with SBC, with SpanDSP, with bcg729.
Running on 64-bit Windows 10 (1809), build 17763, with AMD A8 PRO-7150B R5, 10
Compute Cores 4C+6G (with SSE4.2), with 15305 MB of physical memory, with
locale Portuguese_Portugal.1252, with light display mode, without HiDPI, with
Npcap version 0.9984, based on libpcap version 1.9.1, with GnuTLS 3.6.3, with
Gcrypt 1.8.3, with brotli 1.0.2, without AirPcap, binary plugins supported (19
loaded). Built using Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 (VC++ 14.24, build 28314).
Wireshark is Open Source Software released under the GNU General Public
License.
Check the man page and https://www.wireshark.org for more information.
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Hello,
On the latest version of Wireshark (3.2.0), when I right click on the “Packet
List” columns header, the pop-up menu with the list of defined columns
available to display shows also the columns type/fields on the right of the
column title, whereas before only the columns title was displayed, as seen here
(https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChWorkDisplayPopUpSection.html).
This results on the columns list pop-up menu being unusable for quick selection
of columns in my case, as I have many defined, some of which with many fields.
See for example here (https://imgur.com/rM78Gxy) how my columns currently show
on the pop-up menu. The last visible column is "MNC", however the list
continues to the right, because I have many more columns as see on the Column
Preferences here (https://imgur.com/9e6fRcW), however the rest of the columns
no longer show due to the added fields and the horizontal split of the list.
I understand that this is new standard behavior was added here
(https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/35088/,
https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/35214/) and this is a good feature
overall, but it would be good to have either add a preference to disable the
functionality or change how the columns are displayed on the pop-up menu, e.g.,
show the complete list of columns on a single scrollable vertical list instead
of splitting them on multiple non-scrollable colums which make it unusable when
there are many columns, as in my case.
Let me elaborate: I regularly analyze packet captures with various different
protocols with many fields, so to help me I have 150+ custom columns defined
and I regularly switch between them depending on the capture; when only the
column title was displayed on the pop-up menu the many column titles were split
on various columns instead of a continuous scrollable list, and that was ok
because all columns would show up; however, with the columns fields added now
to the pop-up menu and the same multi-column display being maintained,
basically the columns on the right basically disappear and are not usable,
hence if the pop-up menu display would be changed to a vertical scrollable
list, instead of horizontal non-scrollable, that could solve the problem.
I hope I could explain it. :)
Thank you,
Hax.
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