Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Start and stop capture toolbar buttons?

[Kurt Knochner <ws.dev.list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Ed Beroset
> Evan Huus wrote:
> > The *proper* (for certain values of that word) way to decide this issue is
> > really to do a usability study, however that is expensive/time-consuming so
> > unless Riverbed wants to make that investment it isn't likely to happen
> > with any degree of rigour.
>
> They found the same confusion about the Record icon and noted that  
> the Play icon had 85% recognition, but Record only 42% and noted  
> that the Record icon was "Often though of as 'stop', particularly if  
> coloured red.  Connotations of traffic lights, 'no entry' sign or  
> full stop."

without the intention to add confusion to the discussion, I like to  
suggest this:

1.) use a classical green/blue 'start' (play) button as that's  
probably the 'commonly accepted' symbol to start an action, in this  
case the capture action, regardless of a possible confusion with a  
planned playback feature, which does not sound like a key feature of  
Wireshark and thus should not get it's own button in the main GUI.

2.) Use a totally different icon to indicate the CAPTURE/RECORD  
action, like: a camera

3.) Use a funny icon, like a 'wire shark' with wide open jaws, eating  
up the packets ;-)


Regards
Kurt