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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] New toplevel Telephone menu item

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:07:05 +0100
Hi,

Well that was easy:
grep 'everything with telephone icon' | xargs mv menu/Telephony
;)

I'm oke with this idea, but would suggest to call it 'Telecom' i.s.o. 'Telephony', because it entails more than plain telephony. Also now the telephone icon has lost its meaning (they all have it, of course!) it should be dropped.

Thanx,
Jaap

Ulf Lamping wrote:
Hi!

There was a patch lingering around on my hard drive for months, so I thought: "commit it and let's see what people think".


Motivation: very long toplevel menus are hard to handle. They are hard to "scan", hard to remember and hard to work with (e.g. the longer the menu get's, it's harder to click on the list items far below).

For all these reasons, some time ago I thought about how to solve "the problem" of having a very long Statistics menu. The best possible solution seemed for me to split out the telephony related stuff into a new seperate toplevel menu item.


So I've implemented the "small" changes some time ago. After looking at these changes today, it seemed a rather "natural" change.

There's another reason this change may aid people: Most of the people not in the telephony industry will not even know the protocols in that menu. Keeping this in a seperate menu may help them find their way faster and easier.

You may argue one or two things could be questionable sorted in (e.g. WAP is telephony related IMHO - others may disagree here). Or even the term Telephony ;-)


Any feedback welcome ...