Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: GUI layout preference, 1st proposal

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Jason House wrote:

>   Being a bit late in responses is the curse of daily digests... I see 
> now that you posted your changes before I responded to the proposal. 
> The real gist of my post was that users may want to have something 
> other than 3 items displayed at a time.  Rather than just say a few 
> vague words, I tried to create a layout that would handle it.

Yes, I see that, and a picture is usually much better than some words.

>   There is also the possibility of adding more pictures to your 
> design, but the question becomes where to stop... Allowing the option 
> to only display one or two items adds only 3 more pictures.  

That's already possible, as you simply choose one of the layouts and 
fill "none" in one or more fields.

> The most common way to handle 4 items would be to split the window 
> into quadrants...

Well, that's not possible in "my" approach.

> I don't have a whole lot of GTK experience. Do such things as vpanes 
> and hpanes exist?  

Yes they do, if you're interested, have a look at: gtk_vpaned_new() and 
gtk_hpaned_new().

> I guess that even if they don't the meaning would have be clear.  You 
> are right that panes only accept two items, but just like the original 
> ethereal GUI, there are ways to acceptably handle more than 2.

Yes of course. The current implementation already creates 4 panes, 2 
vertically and 2 horizontally, and uses 2 of them as requested by the 
settings.

Regards, ULFL