Re: [Gretl-users] Menu re-structuring

On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:07:10AM -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote: Well, "View" seems a reasonable choice, it parallels the "Add" menu tree. If the number of top-level menus is really a problem (personally, I don't think so), another option could be to transform the "Add" and "View" branches into submenus of the "Data" menu, as in: Data Add (current content of "Add") View Graph specified vars -------------------- Multiple graphs -------------------- Summary statistics -------------------- Correlation matrix -------------------- Multivariate statistics ------------------------- Display values Edit values Add observations Remove extra observations ------------------------- Read info Edit info Print description Add case markers Remove case markers ------------------------- But IMHO this solution would have an excessive degree of nesting (which I dislike more than the overall number of toplevel menus). My preferred solution would be the following: Data Display values Edit values Add observations Remove extra observations ------------------------- Read info Edit info Print description Add case markers Remove case markers --------------------- Dataset structure \ Compact data | Items moved here from "Sample" Expand data | Transpose data / Add (current content) View Graph specified vars \ -------------------- | Multiple graphs | -------------------- | Items moved here from "Data" Summary statistics | -------------------- | Correlation matrix | -------------------- / Multivariate statistics Sample Set range Restore full range ------------------ Define based on dummy Restrict based on criterion Random subsample ----------------- Drop all obs with missing values Count missing values Set missing value code Notes: - We'd have 8 top level menus instead of 7 (doesn't seem a big problem to me, given that the overall structure is way more intuitive) File | Tools | Data | Add | View | Sample | Variable | Model (by the way, is this the "right" order? or it may be improved?) - The "Data" menu would not be overcrowded (13 items instead of 14) - All the commands that modify the dataset would be under "Data", not under "Sample" (I guess you know I'm obsessioned by that! :) Opinions? Cri -- GPG/PGP Key-Id 0x943A5F0E - http://www.linux.it/~cri/cri.asc Free software, free society - http://www.fsfeurope.org