On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Cristian Rigamonti wrote: OK, thanks, fixed. OK, will fix that foo. I think this was working but some change must have broken it. I'll take a look. Allin.

Hi, some comments about the latest windows snapshot (July 6) in preparation for 1.6. I haven't done any thorough testing, though, and some comments are quite general, i.e. could have been made earlier as well: 1) gretl still uses c:\userdata in various places, even though it was installed in c:\programme\gretl in my case. I guess it should use a subdir of the install dir, or try to figure out the home dir of the user 2) The message "there are no new files on the server right now" is still not localizable. 3) In preferences/general, the choice between cholesky and QR could maybe use a short comment what this is about (I guess it must relate to how to solve (X'X)*beta = X'y ?) 4) Just a thought: maybe use 2sls instead of tsls, in analogy to 3sls, and both "two" and "three" start with t. 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.) 6) Function packages: I just ran the Hegy example on my cross-section dataset. So maybe it would be a good idea to have function authors specify the type of datasets for which their function is applicable, and otherwise refuse to run. (Of course, users can be expected to not do something so stupid, but I guess it would potentially also catch other data-management errors.) And for function uploading I guess you made sure that overwriting existing functions is impossible? 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. 8) The message string 'Data set is not recognized as a panel.\n Please use \"Sample/Set frequency, startobs\".' still needs to be changed. 9) In the Hurst exponent window there are some English strings that apparently are not localizable yet: "coeff", "std. error", "Intercept", "Slope", "avg", "Size" (2x). That's it for now, cheers, Sven

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Riccardo Jack Lucchetti wrote: Could be a problem, I'll have to check. 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. Yes, I'm happy with that. Allin.

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Cristian Rigamonti wrote: 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.