Please add toolbar buttons for File List Next/Prev File

This issue was migrated from bug 9395 in our old bug tracker.

Original bug information:

Reporter: Mark Easter
Status: CONFIRMED
Product: Wireshark
Component: Qt UI
OS: All
Platform: All
Version: 1.10.3

Mark Easter said:

Build Information:

Paste the COMPLETE build information from "Help->About Wireshark", "wireshark -v", or "tshark -v".

I almost always divide captures into 100MB files to make then small enough to examine quickly. It would be great if I could have a toolbar button or shortcut key to load the prev/next file in the current file list. Pretty please?

added enhancement uiqt version1.10 labels

Guy Harris said:

Some might consider the toolbar cluttered enough that we might want to allow users to configure it to have their choice of functions.

Mark Easter said:

Agreed. Or maybe turn it on when file list in use is detected.

Alexis La Goutte said:

(In reply to comment #‍2)
> Agreed. Or maybe turn it on when file list in use is detected.

Patch are welcome :-)

Peter Wu said:

Got another feature request (from IRC) to add the "Preferences" option back to the toolbar (it was present in GTK+). It might be a good idea to add an option where the user can add/remove toolbar buttons as desired.

Guy Harris said:

(In reply to Peter Wu from comment #4)  
> Got another feature request (from IRC) to add the "Preferences" option back  
> to the toolbar (it was present in GTK+). It might be a good idea to add an  
> option where the user can add/remove toolbar buttons as desired.  

Yes.  That sort of toolbar customization option is common in macOS applications - there are toolbar APIs for it:

    https://developer.apple.com/reference/appkit/nstoolbar?language=objc

and KDE also supports customization of toolbars (albeit with a UI that looks Windowsish and not quite as nice as macOS's):

    https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/applications/fundamentals/config.html

and, yup, KDE is definitely somewhat Windowsish:

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh298385(v=vs.85).aspx

Unfortunately, the toolbar is not one of Qt's strong points - not exactly all that native looking, and no obvious sign of the API providing a user-customization option:

    http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtoolbar.html

and wxWidgets, even though it presumably sits atop native toolbar widgets, doesn't have anything exposing customizability, either:

    http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/classwx_tool_bar.html

Not sure GTK+ supports it, either.

Alexis La Goutte said:

(In reply to Peter Wu from comment #‍4)
> Got another feature request (from IRC) to add the "Preferences" option back
> to the toolbar (it was present in GTK+). It might be a good idea to add an
> option where the user can add/remove toolbar buttons as desired.

If i remenber the idea, will be to avoid with Qt to have a lot of icon not used by people...

it is possible to have some preference for this...

marked this issue as related to #19888