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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] --without-gtk3 doesn't imply --with-qt

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From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:59:14 -0500
On 11/29/14 05:44, B�lint R�czey wrote:
Hi Jeff,

2014-11-26 19:26 GMT+01:00 Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>:
On 11/26/14 13:01, Stephen Fisher wrote:

Is there any reason a user would have both GTK3 and GTK2 installed and
not want to use GTK3 for wireshark-gtk builds?  We could simplify it to
be --with-gtk/--without-gtk and --with-qt/--without-qt and just use the
latest version of GTK on the system (3.x, if available, otherwise 2.x)
when requested.  The default could remain to make a Qt and GTK build and
if the user didn't want GTK anymore, just pass --without-gtk to the
configure script.


I have both Gtk3 and Gtk2 installed but build with Gtk2.  The Gtk3 UI just
looks horrible to me (and, no, I'm not one who really cares about how things
look but, well, I have a choice).
Could you please share a screenshot about what you find horrible in GTK3?
I'm using the Debian package which looks quite good to me and I
managed to get the OS X version to be nice as well:

(I generally build on Fedora though what I push to my users is for RHEL/CentOS.)

I think what really did it for me was the Decode-As window:

https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201307/msg00198.html

I can (still) barely tell which tab I'm on.

http://balintreczey.hu/blog/beautiful-wireshark-on-os-x-using-homebrew-and-gtk3quartz/

Looking at it more I think another thing that bothers me even on the home page is that the (disabled - because in my build environment I don't have capture privs) "start capture now" icon is green (but with a different color background) rather than, as in the Gtk2 or Qt versions, well, not green at all.