On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Edwin Groothuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Gerald Combs <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 4/10/13 3:57 PM, Kurt Knochner wrote: >>>> Laura Chappell wrote: >>> >>>>> RECOMMENDATION: >>>>> Start= just green arrow >>>>> Stop= just red square >>> >>>> a lot of other network sniffers chose that for their icons too. >>> >>>> http://goo.gl/EtySX >> >>> This makes zero sense to me. Why would you click on a "play" button to >>> capture packets? > >> This. > >> At risk of repeating myself: if the icon is confusing fix the icon, >> but I think the recording metaphor is right. Perhaps Guy's suggestion >> of adding fill/depth so that it looks less like an indicator light and >> more like a button is worth pursuing. >> >> However, as Laura's poll showed, the power of green=start and red=stop >> is not to be ignored (this suggests to me that the standard 'record' >> icon of a red circle isn't optimal in the first place). Perhaps just a >> green circle for start and a red square for stop? > > The stop button doesn't do anything if there is no capturing happening. > The capture button doesn't do anything if there is a capture happening. > > Why do we need two buttons? > Can't we have a single button which is for enabling and disabling the > capturing of packets.
Perhaps it makes more sense to merge 'start' and 'restart' since (especially as of r48818) their icons are already similar. This would also mean that accidental double-clicks would be effectively harmless - you would at most lose the packets which arrived during the double-click interval. Evan ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
