Christopher Curtis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On 3/30/07, David Marrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We already get Gimpshop users coming to the mailing lists asking for
help and,
Would it be a good idea to embrace these users as well? Gimpshop may
be a non-supported hack, but hosting a
Von: Simon Budig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't think hosting a gimpshop-specific list is a good idea, it would
imply that we'd support gimpshop. Since we know that it is a badly
executed hack and its author apparently is not interested in
cooperation, I believe this would be a bad idea.
Isn't
Hi,
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 11:39 +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote:
I don't think that it would be a problem. Over the years, Jernej's
installer has evolved into something that can only be described as an
official package for Windows. Regarless of what we state about it,
I bet that most users
On 3/30/07, David Marrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We already get Gimpshop users coming to the mailing lists asking for help and,
Would it be a good idea to embrace these users as well? Gimpshop may
be a non-supported hack, but hosting a Gimpshop-specific list may
provide insight into a larger
Sven Neumann wrote:
In my opinion we should stick to this rule. It would make a lot of sense
to make it easier for the user to locate our recommendations for binary
packages. If user agent detection helps to remove one or two clicks,
then I am fine with that. But if there's a download button
I don't see why providing links to recomended binaries on the front page
would put any more responsibility on us.
We already direct users to recomendeded binaries, and as long as we
continue to be clear that we don't build those binaries ourselves, why
should we not make it easier to reach those?
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:29:26 +0100, David Marrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It was suggested on the gimp-web mailing list that we could provide direct
links
to binary packages for popular platforms such as Windows or Mac, based on
user
agent detection. The link would be provide from the home
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:20:58 +0200, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...] But if there's a download button on the
front-page that directly instantiates the download, then we are
effectively providing binary packages. It doesn't matter if the packages
are hosted elsewhere. To the user it
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:09:05 +0200
From: Martin Nordholts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't see why providing links to recomended binaries on the front
page would put any more responsibility on us.
We already direct users to recomendeded binaries, and as long as we
continue to be
On 3/29/07, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote:
And then grab the gtk+, and gimp win binaries. And all those pages are
in English only - (most people in my target audiences are not
proeficient enough in English - so, just imagine all those pages are
in some language you don't understand, and
Dear all,
It was suggested on the gimp-web mailing list that we could provide direct
links
to binary packages for popular platforms such as Windows or Mac, based on user
agent detection. The link would be provide from the home page - see
http://next.gimp.org/ for a taster. I liked the
Hi,
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 00:29 +0100, David Marrs wrote:
Sven indicated that this idea has already been considered and rejected by the
team and that I should bring it up for discussion here before proceeding any
further.
We haven't really discussed and rejected this particular idea. The
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