Re: [Gretl-users] Testing the current CVS version
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Cristian Rigamonti wrote:
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:54:18PM -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
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> Any other opinions on this? I tend to agree there are now too
> many menu branches, but I'm not sure of the optimal way of
> reducing them.
Me too, I was wondering about a possible re-organisation of
the menu, but I thought it was not timely to suggest it for
1.6.0; anyway, if we agree it's time, I could think about it
more seriously and come up with detailed suggestions...
I've thought about this some more and have a few ideas. If
people like them, it would be quite easy to implement them for
1.6.0 -- except that it would create more work for the
translators since it would require a new .pot file. What do
translators think about that?
Anyway here are the ideas:
* Make the File menu more focused, with Open and Save for data
files, scripts, and session files. Take out "View command log",
"Browse databases", "Additional functions", "Create data
set"
(and maybe Preferences too?).
* That gets rid of the Session menu, by consolidating it into a
slimmed-down File menu.
* "Tools" is probably a more standard designation than
"Utilities", so rename Utilities as Tools. Put the items moved
out of File under Tools. (Should Preferences go under Tools?)
Allin.