Re: [Gretl-users] Menu re-structuring
On Thu, July 13, 2006 00:28, Cristian Rigamonti wrote:
Ok, I'll jump in, I'll try to summarize the whole menu debate
and I'll add my
suggestions.
...
* File
I, for one, like Cri's layout
* Utilities
- Allin: rename as Tools, put the items moved out of File under Tools. Also
Preferences should go here
- Cri: I agree. Something like this could do?
Fine by me. While we're at it, would anyone else like to have a tab under the
"Preferences" dialog to set all the switches that currenly are only accessible
through the "set" command, such as "hplambda"? By the way, this would
enable
us to get rid of the "seed generator" entry under "Add", that
doesn't really
belong there IMO.
* Session
- Sven: maybe move it under File
- Jack: maybe move it under Utilities
- Allin: let's move it under File
- Cri: let's move it under File
OK under File.
* Data
See "Variable".
* Add
- Cri: here again I'd just re-group items in three groups:
- Transformations of existing variables
(lags, logs, squares, diffs, logdiffs, seasdiffs)
- New "special" variables
(index, normal, uniform, trend, define new variable)
- New dummy variables
(discrete, periodic, unit, time)
I like this, with 1 exception: IMO, "define new variable" must be by itself.
Maybe we could also take the opportunity to add "dummify" to the
"dummy"
group.
* Sample
- Allin: The core functionality here is setting the sample range in various
ways. Some other functions have been added here (e.g. set dataset
structure,
transpose data), and the location of these extra items may be debatable.
- Cri: as I said in "Data", I'd move away all commands which permanently
modify
the dataset
I like it the way it is now. This is where you go to change the way data are
organised, full stop. In this respect, maybe the word "Sample" can be a little
misleading, but I can't think of anything better.
* Variable
Everything's fine here? :-)
If it were by me, I'd like to have all descriptive statistics in one place.
This would require putting together some of the items that are now under
"Data" with some entries from "Variable". But I don't have a
strong opinion on
this, also because I wouldn't know how to organise the leftovers.
* Model
- Jack: let's re-arrange commands like this:
...
Please note that my proposal is a very tentative one. I feel that the grouping
I proposed is somewhat neater, but it wouldn't take much to convince me that
other solutions are better. I wouldn't even mind leaving the model menu as is
now.
Riccardo "Jack" Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Facoltà di Economia "G. Fuà"
Ancona