On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Michael Schumacher <schum...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 31.12.2013 11:39, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > >> second website > >> http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ > > > > This is the recommend location for downloading, and for Windows users > > we don't show MD5 or stuff. The download link is quite obvious. > > > > It _could_ be a button indeed. Something to work on in due time. > > What has to be considered here is the overwhelming number of > button-look-a-likes that lead users to malicious copies of the software > they want - we should not contribute to this automatic behavior, if is > one of the reasons why we left SF, after all. > > I'd suggest that we make 'Download GIMP 2.8.10' a link to the HTTP url > as well, and keep the rest as-is. > > The organization of the page seems a bit dated or biased. The users most likely to actually want to download are Windows and MacOS X users (since Linux users are more likely to use their distribution's packaging system), and those links are hidden behind a "Show other downloads" link. That makes it non-obvious for those users. -Shawn -- Shawn T. Amundson _______________________________________________ gimp-web-list mailing list gimp-web-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-web-list
