Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Patch: Hiding disabled protocols

[Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

|From: Stas Grabois
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|Guy Harris wrote:
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|>Should the same be done with the preferences dialog?  (We'd still
|>load and save those preferences; we just wouldn't offer the option
|>of editing them.)
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|I think not.
|I use filter and decode dialogs very often, but use only a few 
|protocols.
|On the other side I use prefernces dialog rarely, so I have no problem 
|with the long list there.

I am more in favor of providing an option in the general preferences
to show/hide preference information for disabled protocols, and to
show/hide those based on this preference and the protocol's status.

Regards,

Olivier