[Gretl-users] Testing the current CVS version

[Riccardo Jack Lucchetti]

On Wed, July 12, 2006 16:09, Allin Cottrell 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?)

I like it. And, yes, Preferences under Tools is standard in most apps.

And while we're at it, I wouldn't mind a bit of collective thinking on the
"Model" menu. If we decide that sub-menu are not a problem, I would suggest
the following re-organisation of the Model menu. Clearly, this is a tentative
proposal, I'd like to hear other people's opinions.


"Ordinary Least Squares"	-> as is
"Weighted Least Squares"	-> "Other linear models/WLS"
"Heteroskedasticity corrected"	-> "Other linear models/Heteroskedasticity
corrected"
"Time series/Cochrane-Orcutt"	-> "Time series/GLS/Cochrane-Orcutt"
"Time series/Hildreth-Lu"	-> "Time series/GLS/Hildreth-Lu"
"Time series/Prais-Winsten"	-> "Time series/GLS/Prais-Winsten"
"Time series/Autoregressive estimation"	-> "Time series/GLS/Autoregressive
estimation"
"Time series/ARIMA"	    -> as is
"Time series/GARCH"	    -> as is
"Time series/Vector Autoregression"	-> "Time series/Multiple/VAR"
"Time series/VAR lag selection"	-> "Time series/Multiple/VAR lag selection"
"Time series/VECM"	-> "Time series/Multiple/VECM"
"Time series/Cointegration test/Engle-Granger" -> can go AFA I'm concerned
"Time series/Cointegration test/Johansen"	-> "Time series/Multiple/Johansen
contegration test"
"Panel" -> as is
"Two-Stage Least Squares"	-> "Other linear models/2SLS"
"Logit"	-> "Nonlinear models/Logit"
"Probit"	-> "Nonlinear models/Probit"
"Tobit"	-> "Nonlinear models/Tobit"
"Poisson"	-> "Nonlinear models/Poisson"
"Logistic"	-> "Nonlinear models/Logistic"
"Least Absolute Deviation"	-> "Robust estimation/LAD"
"Rank correlation"	-> "Robust estimation/Rank correlation"
"Nonlinear Least Squares"  -> "Nonlinear models/NLS"
"Maximum likelihood"	-> as is
"Simultaneous equations"	-> as is
"High precision OLS"	   -> "Other linear models/High precision OLS"


Riccardo "Jack" Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Facoltà di Economia "G. Fuà"
Ancona