Maynard, Chris schrieb: > Hi Ulf, > > I like it. I always thought the blank gray screen at startup was > somewhat plain and boring. We've got all the real estate to do > something with, why not put it to good use? > > Somewhat related to this - I was thinking about proposing a "Wireshark > Tips" at startup - the "Did you know?" stuff that many programs have > that depict a "Tip of the day" for instance. A lot of new features > keep getting added to Wireshark and I'm not sure everyone is always > aware of them, so that might be one way to help introduce these > features. It's easy to assume that everyone will actually go back and > re-read the user documentation to find out what's new each time, but > I'm not sure that actually happens. One thing I find about these tips > though is that many times they get turned off because it's annoying to > have to hit a close button each time upon startup for the tip dialog; > however, if there's a section on this new startup page of yours > reserved for a "Tip of the day" and perhaps with a "Next Tip" button > to cycle through the tips, then the user wouldn't have to close an > extra dialog. That to me would seem like it would be useful. The kind of "Did you know that if you click on ..." is the first thing I switch off when I first start a program - so I don't tend to implement it :-)
However, a basic news panel *might* be useful. Problem here: for example you won't get freshly developed features if you are using the WS release versions. I currently don't see a good way to handle these problems, but this might be a future thing to think about. BTW: There are also lot's of people that pretty much dislike those "chatty" programs at all. > > OK, other than that, here is some initial feedback: > 1) The "Open Recent" middle portion seems to right-justify the files > and cut off the beginning of the path. It looks strange to me, > although left-justification would probably show the path and cut off > the filename itself, which would probably be less useful. Perhaps > word-wrapping the filename would work well here? As I said, basic implementation :-) BTW: left-justify doesn't really work as the last part of the name is usually significant. Has to be improved - should be easy to do. > 2) Clicking on the "Capture Options" results in a Wireshark crash. > (At least on Windows XP). I can send a dump if needed, but it happens > every time so I would suspect you would be able to easily reproduce it. Hmmm, it just works fine on my XP machine! And to be honest, looking at the code I don't see a good reason for it to fail. > 3) Security: Text should read, "Work with Wireshark as *securely* as > possible" I'll fix that > 4) Show some "tooltips" when highlighting one of the choices. For > example, when the cursor is hovering on the "Security" link, the > tooltip could show the http://wiki.wireshark.org/Security URL that you > will go to if you click on it. Unsure if this is really helpful, as there's already the "subtitle". Will think about it. > 5) Moving various other windows across the page seems to corrupt it. > See sample screen capture, attached. GTK bug for years, not a lot we can do about it :-( > 6) Add a development section? Getting started, README.developer, SVN > link, mailing lists, bugzilla, buildbot, reporting bugs, links to IETF > (for RFC's), IANA, etc.??? I don't think this is the place for a devel section. Any gifted developer will have a look at the webpage ;-) > 7) Since Wireshark is hosted by CACE, maybe they'd like to plug their > site? WiresharkU? I strongly oppose *any* advertisements on the Wireshark user interface, be it for CACE, WiresharkU or anything else. The day I see advertisements on the Wireshark GUI, I will stop immediately to work on it any further - or maybe I would start a project fork!!! We are talking about an open source program here - I really, really don't like to see it to become adware! Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
