While testing the new tabbed GUI, I got a relatively radical idea regarding the icon view: How about designating the bottom of the main window (with the icons) for the icon view? That is plots, model icons etc will be listed here. Better yet, this could be designed as a toolbar that can be detached and reattached to the bottom or to the side just like openoffice etc. There could even be 2 toolbars. The first toolbar would contain static icons, a combination of the existing calculator ... set (in the main window) as well as the summary, correlations ... set from the icon view window. The second toolbar would contain only dynamic objects such as models, plots etc. This also gives the possibility for other toolbars for, say, scalars. I am not sure how this can be done exactly but I think some carefully designed GUI change along the lines of the above proposal could make gretl user interface (even) more intuitive and modern. Any comments or suggestions? Regards Talha -- “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” - Niels Bohr (1885-1962) --