Re: Default interface in the "front page"?

[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen () lurchi franken de>]

On Apr 8, 2013, at 2:22 AM, Jim Aragon wrote:

> At 05:01 PM 4/7/2013, Guy Harris wrote:
>
> > On the front page, should Wireshark either select an interface as the 
> > default, or select all of them by default?
>
> If the user has not selected a default interface at Edit Preferences > Capture, I'd vote to have Wireshark select the 
> first interface listed. I would not select all interfaces. I think single-interface capture is still more common, 
> even on multiple interface systems.
I would prefer to follow what the user has configured. No default interface.
> > If it should do one of those, should it do that in the Capture -> 
> > Options window as well?
>
> Yes. Let's be consistent.
Agreed.
> > If it shouldn't do either of them, then, if no interfaces are 
> > selected, should it disable the "Start" toolbar button and Capture -> 
> > Start menu item, so that you have to select an interface in order to 
> > use those to start a capture (the experimental Qt version does that), 
> > or should it continue to allow them but pop up an error if none are selected?
>
> If no interface is selected, then Start buttons--wherever found--should be grayed out. No sense letting the user 
> select an item that we know in advance will not work and will only generate an error. Start buttons should also be 
> grayed out if a default interface was selected, but the user subsequently unchecked all interfaces in Capture Options 
> or Capture > Interfaces.
Agreed.
> Jim
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