Re: using preferences_common to deploy preferences across profiles

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 21 June 2013 11:10, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Jun 21, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Stuart Kendrick <skendric () fhcrc org> wrote:
>
> > I was imagining that I could create a preferences_common file
> (c:\users\{username}\appdata\roaming\wireshark\preferences_common), add a
> few tool-bar filters:
> > ####### Filter Expressions ########
> > gui.filter_expressions.label: Exclude-broadcast
> > gui.filter_expressions.enabled: TRUE
> > gui.filter_expressions.expr: not eth.ig==1
> > gui.filter_expressions.label: TAF
> > gui.filter_expressions.enabled: TRUE
> > gui.filter_expressions.expr: tcp.analysis.flags
> >
> > And see those filters appear in /all/ of my profiles.
> >
> > But this turns out not to work.  Is my imagination perhaps overactive?
>
> Unfortunately, yes.
>
> > And I must instead add these Filter Expressions to /all/ the preferences
> files in all my profile directories?
>
> And yes.
>
> In another thread, I suggested
>
> > Would it be useful to allow multiple sets of coloring rules, not
> associated with a profile, and to have profiles support having more than
> one set of coloring rules associated with them, evaluated in the order in
> which they're listed?  We could then ship a simple "starter" set and
> include various "add-ons", and let the user choose which sets they want.
>
> If we had the notion of a "common" profile in addition to specific
> profiles, that might be another way to achieve what I suggested.
At SharkFest a couple of  users asked if there was a way to #include a
common set of preferences\colorfilters\whathaveyou in to the users profile.
 This might be another approach.

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