[Gretl-users] Menu re-structuring

[Allin Cottrell]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Ignacio Díaz-Emparanza wrote:

> I think all these ideas on a new menu structure are 
> interesting and will do gretl a better program, but I think 
> probably we will introduce new bugs in doing that, so I 
> suggest to release an "official" version with the current menu 
> structure (may be 1.5.2 if you prefer) and then modify the 
> menu structure for the following (1.6.0) version.

Actually, changing the layout of the GUI menus (while not 
changing the substance of what the menu items do) is a pretty 
safe operation -- rather unlikely to introduce bugs.

*IF* we have agreement that the current trial setup for the 
menus is an improvement, and that it's a setup we can live with 
for a while (we don't want to make such changes too often), I'd 
be inclined to go ahead with it.  The costs are

* Translators have to do a certain amount of cutting and pasting
   in the .po files (after I put out a new .pot).

* The relevant section of the User's Guide has to be rewritten.

Do we think this is worth it?

> I have taken a quick look to the current windows snapshot, and 
> I must say that all appear to work ok. Specially, the problems 
> in launching gretl in Spanish are corrected.

That's good to hear.

Allin.