Re: [Gretl-users] Testing the current CVS version
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Riccardo Jack Lucchetti wrote:
> 4) Just a thought: maybe use 2sls instead of tsls, in analogy to
3sls,
> and both "two" and "three" start with t.
I agree. The only drawback is, if we allow a command to start
with a number, that could make the parsing code more complex
(Allin?)
Could be a problem, I'll have to check.
> 5) I like the new menu structure; however, iirc there used to
> be one menu less. Now the session menu is quite short, maybe
> make that a submenu of file? (I haven't thought this through,
> but staying at 7 menus would be better imho.)
I feel the same. Only, I'd put "Session" under "Utilities",
which has less entries (and seems more pertinent to me).
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. The File menu is already rather full, and I
suspect that putting the Session stuff under Utilities will
make it less likely to be seen and used.
> 7) Whether or not variables are (set to) discrete should be
> displayed in the main window (by means of a little symbol, or
> a letter). And for discrete variables it would be nice to
> replace the histogram by a bar diagram where the bars are
> visually separated.
I agree on both things. For the graph, it's not easy to
produce horizontal bars with gnuplot. However, have a look at
the attached screenshot...
Do you people like it? Allin, do you?
Yes, I'm happy with that.
Allin.