Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Graphical plugins

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Stan Derry wrote:
> Are there any graphical plugins similar to Etherape's or Compuware's 
> ApplicationVantage (formerly Application Expert)?

There are currently no plugins that do graphics; there are "tap 
listener" plugins, but, currently, there's no mechanism to have tap 
listener plugins labeled as "requires GTK+" vs. "doesn't require GTK+" 
(so that Tethereal would load only the latter - it's not a graphical 
application, so it doesn't include the GTK+ library, and it wouldn't 
make sense to load graphical plugins in Tethereal), and there's no 
"generic" graphics layer for plugins that would be a stub in Tethereal 
(and Tethereal would have to know what plugins are graphical even with 
that, so that they can't be specified with "-z").

A way of distinguishing GUI from non-GUI "tap listener" plugins would be 
useful, e.g. putting the GUI tap listeners into a subdirectory of the 
main directory for plugins.