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Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar
From: Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:47:12 -0800
For the Qt toolbar I created start and stop capture icons based on the media player/recorder "record" (circle) and "stop" (square) conventions[1][2]. "Record" makes more sense to me; we are recording packets to disk after all. It also makes things easier if we ever get around to adding a playback feature. My versions are capture_start_24.png, capture_start_active_24.png, and capture_stop_24.png in the "image" directory. A media-player-ized "capture options" icon could be a record button with a superimposed wrench. I'm not sure about the "interface list" or "restart capture" buttons however. At some point I was hoping to see if we could get Elliott Aldrich (who made the current document icon and several interface icons) to create updated versions of the main toolbar icons including the capture ones. [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tango_icons#Media [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Desktop_icons#Media On 12/7/12 6:38 AM, Maynard, Chris wrote:
+1 There was mention of these icons some time ago, but no changes were ever made: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201107/msg00092.html - Chris ________________________________________ From: wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Guy Harris [guy () alum mit edu] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 4:08 AM To: wireshark-dev () wireshark org Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar On Dec 6, 2012, at 5:46 PM, gerald () wireshark org wrote:Use a different "close" button in the main toolbar. It looks better but is still wrong (on OS X at least).As long as we're playing with the toolbar: I've always found the icon on the "start a capture" button a bit non-obvious. I guess it's supposed to be an image of a plug-in network adapter card for some parallel bus (although that's not the first thing that comes to mind when I look at it), but: 1) the sorts of machines on which a lot of people run Wireshark have built-in network adapters and 2) even a lot of the add-on adapters out there plug into serial buses (USB, PCI Express/Thunderbolt) so a "conventional PCI" card might be an out-of-date icon these days, and, in addition, a number of the other sniffers I've seen use the CD player "start" (right-pointing triangle, pick your color), "stop" (square, probably red or black), and, in some cases, "pause" (two parallel vertical lines) icons for the capture buttons. ("Pause" means "don't receive packets, but, if you click the pause button again, continue capturing with the same options, without discarding or saving the already-captured packets.")
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- Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar Guy Harris (Dec 07)
- Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar Maynard, Chris (Dec 07)
- Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar Gerald Combs (Dec 07)
- Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar Evan Huus (Dec 07)
- Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar Michael Tuexen (Dec 07)
- Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar Evan Huus (Dec 07)
- Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar Michael Tuexen (Dec 07)
- Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar Evan Huus (Dec 07)
- Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar Evan Huus (Dec 07)
- Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar Michael Tuexen (Dec 08)
- Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar Evan Huus (Dec 08)
- Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar Michael Tuexen (Dec 08)
- Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar Evan Huus (Dec 08)
- Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar Gerald Combs (Dec 07)
- Re: Capture start and capture stop icons in the toolbar Maynard, Chris (Dec 07)