[Gretl-devel] Re: Graph dialog windows: only generic title
On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote:
I've noticed that a couple of dialog windows for graphing only
have
generic names. For example choosing Boxplot from the menu yields a
dialog which just says "gretl: define graph", and if you hadn't clicked
Boxplot (and knew that you didn't miss) you wouldn't have any idea that
this is going to be a boxplot. In contrast, the Q-Q plot window has a
descriptive title -- is this coming from inside gui/library.c ?
There's a little inconsistency here, but Q-Q plot seems to be the
odd man out in having a specific window-title (versus "gretl: define
graph"). In most cases the window-title is generic but the header
line in the dialog is specific: "XY scatterplot", "factorized
boxplot" and so on. So it seems to me the best fix would be to give
the boxplots dialog its own header, amend the QQ dialog header, and
remove the specific window title for QQ. The headers are set in
gui/selector.c, and the specific window-titles in gui/dialogs.c.
If you open such a dialog you're presumably going to use it (or
dismiss it) right away rather than "park" it by minimizing, so
having a specific window title doesn't seem necessary, though having
a specific header is useful confirmation that you clicked what you
meant to click.
BTW, let me mention also a different issue: when selecting two series
in
the main variable list this selection seems to be remembered for the
graph dialogs, but not when a single series is marked; one then has to
search and select again (inside the dialog).
OK, but the working assumption is that for a single series you'd
just use the context menu.
Allin