On 9/9/13 9:58 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote: > Hello Evan, > > On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 09:08:59PM -0400, Evan Huus wrote: >> It should be fixed in r51914 (see the commit message for more details). >> Joerg, please let me know if it now works for you (or if you are in fact >> seeing a different bug). > > Fixed. > > Thanks! > > Now that it is working, the only question left is: What's the use case for > this progress bar?
The progress bar lets the user know Wireshark's status during program initialization. Ideally Wireshark would always start up within a couple of seconds but that's often not the case. In the GTK+ code the progress bar is displayed in a splash screen. You'd have to ask Ulf about the specific design decisions, but as I recall it was standard UI practice at the time. For the Qt port I thought it would be useful to display the main welcome screen as soon as possible. I added a lightbox overlay during startup in order to disable it in a big and obvious way. I don't recall a lot of controversy when the splash screen + progress bar was added in 2004. Why all the fuss now? ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
