Sake Blok wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:59:33PM +0800, Jeff Morriss wrote:
>> Sake Blok wrote:
>>> 1) add another field to incorporate the "Time delta since previous
>>>    frame in the tracefile". This is an option Jeff Morriss suggested
>>>    already.
>>>
>>> 2) have an option in the "frame" protocol preferences to select the
>>>    behaviour of "frame.time_delta". The default would be to use
>>>    "Time delta since previous displayed frame" and the alternative
>>>    would be "Time delta since previous frame in the trace-file"
>>>
>>> Does anyone have another solution for this bug or maybe another idea
>>> for solving it? What would be the prefered way of solving this bug?
>> (2) sounds confusing to users (1 field with 2 different meanings?). 
>> Anyway, fields are cheap so why not just add a new one?
> 
> I remember some reluctance when I added the http.x_forwarded_for 
> field, so that's why I thought a preference might do the trick too.
> 
> Next question is of course, how will we call this new field?
> 
> - frame.time_delta2
> - frame.time_delta_file
> - frame.time_delta_abs
> - frame.time_gap
> - frame.time_diff

What about renaming the current field "frame.time_delta_displayed" and 
name the new one "frame.time_delta"?  That changes the current field but 
it sounds a whole lot more intuitive to me.

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