[Note: moved here from gretl-users] On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 28.04.2014 09:40, schrieb Tim Nall: >> I suppose another option would be a new top-level menu item, directly >> on the menu bar, labeled "Downloads". That would be even more >> accessible. But YMMV. Thanks TMN > > All this is worth discussing, and therefore shouldn't go into / delay > the next release IMHO. > ... > >>>> I quite like the idea. In fact, I wouldn't be against introducing the >>>> above change in the upcoming new release, even if it should be any >>>> day now. Allin? >>> >>> Yes, Tim has a good point here. I'll experiment with this today. > > See above, I think we can experiment calmly. That's no doubt the wise course, but your message arrived just after I moved the "/Files/Function files" item to "/Tools/Function packages" and committed the change (along with updating the translations). I could revert that change, but my feeling is that now the placement of this menu item has been drawn to our attention it's pretty much a no-brainer that it should be under Tools. (I'm against a new top-level menu tree, as in Tim's second suggestion.) Any further thoughts on this? (I won't push out a release just yet.)

> Also, the change will have to be displayed as conspicuously as possible > in the Changelog, in the announcement etc. > Since "nobody" reads these except perhaps ex post, here's a new idea: Why not include the release notes under the help menu? The idea would be that gretl users with some experience stumble over a change ("where are all my function packages, I cannot find them under the File menu"), select release notes from the help menu, and get the hint ("in this release we moved the function packages to the tools menu"). This would all be self-contained without the need for an internet connection etc.