Re: [Ethereal-dev] Preparing for 1.0

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:18:01AM -0600, Gerald Combs wrote:
>   
> >   - Finalize dumpcap - Ulf, I'm not sure how much work is left, but is
> >     dumpcap in good enough shape for a security audit?  If so, we could
> >     make it set{u|g}id on platforms that need it.
> >     
> tethereal doesn't use dumpcap, so it's not finished yet.
>   
Agreed, in addition to the facts I've mentioned earlier.
> >   - Smooth out the Windows file dialogs: The "Filter" button doesn't
> >     work, for instance.
> >     
> Get us a nice file dialog for Unix/Linux as well.
>   
Hmmm, it seems that no one is really pleased by that dialog. We may have 
a talk with the GTK/GNOME developers on this ;-)

However, I know from JAVA development that designing a good platform 
independent file chooser dialog is a really difficult task. It just 
doesn't "feel" right ...
> >   - Add version checking to the Help menu, similar to Firefox and other
> >     apps?
> >     
> I don't think so. We really shouldn't be doing a package management
> stuff inside each application.
>   
I would think of this as a Win32 only feature, but a very important one. 
Win32 doesn't provide a package manager except for the SUS/WSUS services 
which are for Microsoft components/applications only. I never understood 
why MS doesn't provided this feature to other applications?!? But 
please, I don't want to see any discussion on the Win32 vs. UNIX topic  
here ...

Regards, ULFL