I very often forget to stop a running capture, so Ethereal keeps capturing packets on and on, leaving me with a lot of unrequired packets.
On the other hand (because of the above) I often maximize Ethereal just to see that it's really not capturing any longer.
Looking at the window title isn't of much help, as this title changes with every capture file name loaded, so there's no title which can be easily remembered.
We probably might use this icon mechanism as well, when Ethereal loads a (huge) file, so the user get's a more visual feedback when the capture loading is finished (and probably for other potential "lengthy" tasks as well).
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Ulf Lamping