Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] I've updated the "Ethereal User's Guide"

[Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Hi List!
>
> Again, sending this to the dev list, as the doc list seems to be dead!
>
> The Ethereal User's Guide wasn't updated for more than two years right
> now and I've changed lot's of things in the Ethereal GUI code since
> then, so the guide is pretty outdated.
>
> After more than a week of *very hard* work (I don't like writing
> documentation), I've finished a reviewable state of an updated Ethereal
> User's Guide!

Good work.

> -renewed *all* screenshot, using win32 GTK2.4 with png as the file format
> the screenshots were outdated. png is smaller and provides better
> quality than jpg for screenhots, gif is still patented. All modern
> browsers should work with png (except lynx ;-)

Actually, I can't remember why jpgs were used in the original. It is a bad
choice for screen shots of things like Ethereal. However, the GIF patents
have expired now. They did so over a year ago now, I believe.

> -restructured the content to improve understanding and readability
> The structure of the guide was a bit unhappy IMHO, I tried to change it
> to a better understandable structure, again IMHO.

I would love to see the results :-)

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com