For the Qt toolbar I created start and stop capture icons based on the
media player/recorder "record" (circle) and "stop" (square)
conventions[1][2]. "Record" makes more sense to me; we are recording
packets to disk after all. It also makes things easier if we ever get
around to adding a playback feature. My versions are
capture_start_24.png, capture_start_active_24.png, and
capture_stop_24.png in the "image" directory.
A media-player-ized "capture options" icon could be a record button with
a superimposed wrench. I'm not sure about the "interface list" or
"restart capture" buttons however.
At some point I was hoping to see if we could get Elliott Aldrich (who
made the current document icon and several interface icons) to create
updated versions of the main toolbar icons including the capture ones.
[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tango_icons#Media
[2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Desktop_icons#Media
On 12/7/12 6:38 AM, Maynard, Chris wrote:
> +1
>
> There was mention of these icons some time ago, but no changes were ever made: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201107/msg00092.html
>
> - Chris
>
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> From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Harris [guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 4:08 AM
> To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar
>
> On Dec 6, 2012, at 5:46 PM, gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Use a different "close" button in the main toolbar. It looks better but
>> is still wrong (on OS X at least).
>
> As long as we're playing with the toolbar:
>
> I've always found the icon on the "start a capture" button a bit non-obvious. I guess it's supposed to be an image of a plug-in network adapter card for some parallel bus (although that's not the first thing that comes to mind when I look at it), but:
>
> 1) the sorts of machines on which a lot of people run Wireshark have built-in network adapters
>
> and
>
> 2) even a lot of the add-on adapters out there plug into serial buses (USB, PCI Express/Thunderbolt)
>
> so a "conventional PCI" card might be an out-of-date icon these days, and, in addition, a number of the other sniffers I've seen use the CD player "start" (right-pointing triangle, pick your color), "stop" (square, probably red or black), and, in some cases, "pause" (two parallel vertical lines) icons for the capture buttons.
>
> ("Pause" means "don't receive packets, but, if you click the pause button again, continue capturing with the same options, without discarding or saving the already-captured packets.")
>
