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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 6641] Adding preference name to tooltips text

Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 19:40:34 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6641

--- Comment #2 from Masatake YAMATO <yamato@xxxxxxxxxx> 2011-12-04 19:40:32 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> That still requires you to start up Wireshark and open up the preferences
> dialog.  Some people only install TShark on machines that, for whatever reason,
> don't have a GUI display and don't have the X11 client libraries installed, so
> they might not have Wireshark available, and even if you do have it available,
> that seems a bit of a clumsy way to ask Wireshark what the name of a given
> preference is.
> 
> Would an automatically-generated man page describing all the preferences also
> work?

The extended tooltips are helpful for GUI users; users can know the name of
preference directly from the opened dialog which they are seeing now. 
They don't have to launch a terminal to know the name of preference.

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