Hi again,
I've been using the "embedded console" feature setting for quite a while
now, and like it a lot. When installing gretl on a new system together
with a colleague, I was reminded that the console is not embedded by
default. So the first impression when starting up gretl (at least on
Windows) is that you get a very white and very empty window, which did
not impress the colleague very much, to be honest.
So what about switching the default to have the console embedded?
One further thought to make the initial window "less empty" in an easy
way: why not have an initial greeting message in the GUI console,
similar to what gretl does on a "real" console in the CLI. Something like:
"
Welcome to gretl 2023b
User guide and further documentation under the Help menu
See Help > About gretl for copyright and license information
Load a dataset under File > Open Data
"
cheers
sven