Re: [Gretl-devel] GUI points (1)
Am 09.06.2017 um 16:16 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On Fri, 9 Jun 2017, Allin Cottrell wrote:
...
> One suggestion that got some traction was a "Package"
(or "Packages")
> top-level menu in the main window (between "Model" and "Help").
The
> idea was to move all the package-related menu items from under Tools
> to this new menu, to increase the visibility of packages.
>
> I've implemented that in current git and snapshots, but personally I'm
> not all that happy with the result.
[And in the meantime it was changed with the result visible in the
current snapshot, I believe.]
Without going into all the details, I think the current (June 17th
snapshot) arrangement is quite good -- changes that are not too
disruptive but go in the right direction IMO.
3 - Assuming the user hasn't concluded by now that there's no
way of
doing this in gretl, try the Help menu. Maybe even open the User's Guide
and the Command Reference, and maybe use the "Find" function of her pdf
reader. Nope, fixed-effects Poisson isn't there.
Good point, and actually -- why not? I mean, why not include a list of
function packages as a further appendix in the user guide? (Basically
the same list which is at:
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/gretl/cgi-bin/gretldata.cgi?opt=SHOW_FUNCS.)
Of course that list as copied into the guide will become slowly outdated
as packages are added and updated quicker than new gretl versions are
released, but that isn't a big problem IMO. The appendix in the user
guide could start with a reminder "current as of the date of release;
for the up-to-date list choose File/Function packages/On server" or
something.
cheers,
sven