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Ability to reset the monitoring data without restarting the capture

Open anpic opened this issue 2 years ago • 12 comments

Please add a button or menu item to clear the connection log at any time

anpic avatar Dec 12 '23 17:12 anpic

Do you mean the list in the Connections tab?

emanuele-f avatar Dec 13 '23 10:12 emanuele-f

Do you mean the list in the Connections tab?

Yeap :)

anpic avatar Dec 13 '23 10:12 anpic

Currently the list is cleared only after PCAPdroid restarting. Which is not always possible. Especially if the PCAPdroid is added to Always-on VPN.

anpic avatar Dec 13 '23 11:12 anpic

It would be even better to add the option to delete for each item in the list via the context menu or top panel. And even allow to select several as for the firewall blocklist and whitelist items.

anpic avatar Dec 13 '23 11:12 anpic

I agree on adding the ability to reset the app state without restarting it. The other option to remove individual connections seems overcomplicate to me.

emanuele-f avatar Dec 13 '23 16:12 emanuele-f

seems overcomplicate to me.

You underestimate yourself ;) Already your firewall is probably the best. But without the possibility of flexible configuration, it's very difficult to use in complex scenarios. It may be worth considering the possibility of customization through importing configs for example, in the JSON format. Even enough through intents. Without UI changes.

anpic avatar Dec 13 '23 16:12 anpic

You underestimate yourself ;)

Ahaha, I mean it can be complicate also for the user to have this grade of configurability. For the time being, the simplicity of a single global list it's better from my point of view, both for code complexity and user experience

emanuele-f avatar Dec 13 '23 16:12 emanuele-f

It may be worth considering the possibility of customization through importing configs for example, in the JSON format

Yes, but in part this is meant not to be simple. If people start using the app as an adblock, it could be removed from the store

emanuele-f avatar Dec 13 '23 16:12 emanuele-f

and user experience

If you start conducting surveys then you will learn a lot about the needs of users ;)

it could be removed from the store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.greyshirts.firewall https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.netguard https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.celzero.bravedns and etc Then it's time to remove them long ago ;)

anpic avatar Dec 13 '23 17:12 anpic

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.netguard

At least for Netguard, I know for sure that you can't do that in the google play version https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/blob/master/ADBLOCKING.md

emanuele-f avatar Dec 13 '23 17:12 emanuele-f

At least for Netguard, I know for sure that you can't do that in the google play version

It's just not necessary to loudly declare that you are adding to block ads ;) Moreover, no one forbids adding in the form of plugins and configs. It all depends on the desire to realize or lack of it ;)

anpic avatar Dec 13 '23 17:12 anpic