Re: PSPPire UI mockup

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 02:53:06PM -0700, Basti?n D?az wrote:
> Hi, as a last contribution (for now), send a mockup of how it might
> improve PSPPire UI. The suggestions are based on literature and
> comments (in consensus) of various PSPP users where I live. The
> suggestions are rather general.

I took a look through the list of ideas.  I agree that many of them are
good ideas.  Some are easier to implement than others, so I thought that
at first I would concentrate on the ones that were easiest to implement.

One that would be pretty easy is the suggestion to include an icon to
describe the level of measurement.  Can you provide icons for the three
levels of measurement that SPSS supports (scale, ordinal, nomimal)?

I agree that adding closing lines to the grid would be nice.  I'll work
on that.

Regarding the idea for a "New" button on the toolbar that drops down a
menu, I see that GTK+ can do this, but I wasn't able to actually make it
work.  (I find the GTK+ menu infrastructure very confusing.)

I agree that adding a toolbar to the syntax editor is a good idea.

I am not sure that it makes sense to put the output viewer into a tab
given that the eventual goal would be to add SPSS-like features to the
output viewer, which (as you say) make it more suited to a separate
window.