Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] New preferences named "userxx.payload" and alike really needs some rework before next

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Hi List!

I've noticed that someone has added a lot of new Preferences since the 0.10.11 release with the name pattern: "userxx.yyy", e.g. "user1.payload".

IMHO this name is a little bit too generic. How about renaming it to "user_encapxx.yyy" or "user_encap_dltxx.yyy" or something like that, so you'll get an idea where this preference is really coming from.

In general there are 15*6 = 90 new Preferences which may slow down Ethereal startup and make the Preferences file larger and harder to edit by hand. Is it really necessary to have such a "huge" amount of them?!?

The comments of these settings have to be improved. For example the first settings is just:
# Payload
# A string.
user0.payload:

IMHO this isn't very intuitive...

Typos: E.g. there are three different ways the word "encapsulation" is printed in the file :-(

BTW: where are these Preferences used at all? They don't seem to be used in the Preferences dialog.

Regards, ULFL

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