On Jun 21, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Stuart Kendrick <skendric@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was imagining that I could create a preferences_common file (c:\users\{username}\appdata\roaming\wireshark\preferences_common), add a few tool-bar filters:
>
> ####### Filter Expressions ########
> gui.filter_expressions.label: Exclude-broadcast
> gui.filter_expressions.enabled: TRUE
> gui.filter_expressions.expr: not eth.ig==1
> gui.filter_expressions.label: TAF
> gui.filter_expressions.enabled: TRUE
> gui.filter_expressions.expr: tcp.analysis.flags
>
> And see those filters appear in /all/ of my profiles.
>
> But this turns out not to work. Is my imagination perhaps overactive?
Unfortunately, yes.
> And I must instead add these Filter Expressions to /all/ the preferences files in all my profile directories?
And yes.
In another thread, I suggested
> Would it be useful to allow multiple sets of coloring rules, not associated with a profile, and to have profiles support having more than one set of coloring rules associated with them, evaluated in the order in which they're listed? We could then ship a simple "starter" set and include various "add-ons", and let the user choose which sets they want.
If we had the notion of a "common" profile in addition to specific profiles, that might be another way to achieve what I suggested.
