Re: [Ethereal-users] Can I change the default interface for capture?

[Jack Spaar <jspaar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
>This also raises the question of whether the "Save" >button should save
>the settings from the "Preferences" dialog or save >the most recent
>settings on a capture.  Currently, it does the >latter, but that might
>not be appropriate - you might want the preferences >to reflect what you
>do most of the time, but be able to override them >without having a
>"Save" save the values you used.

Thanks Guy, I hope you do add a preference for
the default interface, but for now -i will do.

Agree with you on that last point, it would be 
cleaner if preferences could be overridden 
without being overwritten.  In that case, yes
capture prefs should be explicit under the 
preference edit dialog.  

I might add that there seems to be a little
confusion about where prefs are stored for 
win32.  Recent docs mention a change to
Application Data, but I was not able to
save changed preferences until I used C:\ethereal\preferences.  I used to keep 
preferences in \.ethereal but could not save
changes (error message).  Think this will
need a little ironing out, eventually.  But
we'll let the unix-centricness slide for now ;)