Nmap Development: Re: Screen Shots

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:01:56PM -0700, stripe dog wrote:
> So it looks like I need to take a class in email usage, since my post of the
> screen shots didn't seem to include the link to the screenshots...
Hi Cole.  This looks good!  I have some ideas/questions for what they are worth.

o All of yoru large nodes have the "general computer" and "microsoft"
  icons (even things like WAPs).  Is this because you don't have many
  icons, or is the support for changing those not there yet?  Also,
  didn't we decide to use the big icon for the vendor and the little
  one for the device type, or am I mis-remembering?

o Does the application allow you to start it with an Nmap XML filename
  on the command line?  That sounds like a useful feature to have.

o The toggle menu looks quite cool.

o Is the number of host columns based on the window size?  It probably should be.

o It would be interesting to see an example of a host with lots of
  open ports (maybe 30 or so).  Also, the app should function properly
  even if a host has 128K open ports (64K UDP + 64K TCP).  It doesn't
  have to be easy to brows to a specific port on that machine, but the
  GUI shouldn't crash or screw up the rendering.

o Perhaps the port list should indicate protocol (e.g. TCP or UDP) too
  somehow.  Maybe something simple, like preceeding the UDP port numbers
  with 'U' (e.g. U135).  Or do what Nmap does and use '80/tcp' style.

o It would be nice if the app could dynamically change the height and
  width of the nodes by extending the appropriate gray
  rectangle.  Then you could keep them as short/thin as necessary
  (maybe make every host in a row the same height, which is calculated
  as the longest height of any element in the row, or a set maximum
  height, whichever is lower).  Every large node on your screenshot
  page wastes vertical space because of having few open ports.

o The application stil needs a name.  Anyone have suggestions?

o It may be worthwhile to give the Nmap command line used at the top
  of the disagram.  This can be found near the top of the XML.  At a
  minimum, I think the targets should be shown.

> it displays the default "?" icon in various places. As I add icons from
> photoshop as well as improve the xml parsing (it misses things from time to
> time), we should see fewer question marks.
XML parser "misses things from time to time"?  Strange.

Thanks for the sneak peek at the application!  It is looking good.

Cheers,
-F


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