"apply/prepare filter" from the protocol column context menu unavailable

[phreakocious <phreakocious () gmail com>]

Hello, as mentioned in the subject, these menu options are disabled in the
packet list.  My (probably flawed) muscle memory insists that it worked at
some point.  The other columns work fine so it seems to be intentional.  My
gut says it's due to inconsistent/unintuitive behavior in cases like an
ACK, where filtering by protocol would result in all TCP.  This is a bit
annoying, but debatably less so than the back and forth movement to the
details view to filter simpler things like ARP, DHCP, (M)DNS, etc.

Given that it's probably just as hard to whitelist the simple protocols as
to blacklist the complex ones, maybe it could just be a global option to
enable that function for all protocols?

Does anyone else running into this feel similarly?

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