Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] "Decode As..." enumerates protocols in unsorted manner

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Olivier Biot wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I just recompiled Ethereal from scratch, and was playing with a sample
> capture I have, where I need to perform some "Decode as" operations. I
> was surprised when I first didn't find HTTP in the list anymore, then
> I remembered that plugin dissectors appeared at the very end of that
> list and then I exhaustively searched for HTTP in the list of possible
> protocols, where I eventually found it between COPS and DHCPFO.
>
> Is this behavior intentional, and when was it introduced?
>  
This was caused, at the time you changed from GTK1 to 2. There are 
different list implementations used.

Hmmm, intentional might be something different...

After finding out, how to sort a list in GTK2, I've recently checked in 
a change to fix it.

Regards, ULFL