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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 47214: /trunk/ /trunk/epan/: prefs.c

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:16:20 -0700
On Apr 24, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On my laptop this moves the vertical scrollbars to the left. It seems
> really odd to have a setting for this in a single application instead of
> system-wide.

It *is* really odd to do that.  We shouldn't offer application-specific preference settings for preferences that would apply to all apps, especially if there's a GUI way to control them globally.