Re: [Gimp-developer] What next after sourceforge.net?

2015-05-30 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 05/30/2015 03:46 AM, Sam Gleske wrote: In fact, the direct download link for Windows is a tiny this link at the end of the description paragraph underneath the GIANT torrent link. As you can see in the thread I linked to, this is going to change - with both links to be more prominent

Re: [Gimp-developer] What next after sourceforge.net?

2015-05-29 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, I'm not a GIMP dev or involved in any way, but a quick comment from me. One obvious thing: The easier you make it to find the legitimate / real download the less likely people will look for it elsewhere. Now let's assume I'm a windows user, not super skilled, but I heared that GIMP is a

Re: [Gimp-developer] What next after sourceforge.net?

2015-05-29 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 05/29/2015 07:51 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: Hi, I'm not a GIMP dev or involved in any way, but a quick comment from me. One obvious thing: The easier you make it to find the legitimate / real download the less likely people will look for it elsewhere. Now let's assume I'm a windows

Re: [Gimp-developer] What next after sourceforge.net?

2015-05-29 Thread Sam Gleske
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Michael Schumacher schum...@gmx.de wrote: See https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-May/msg00034.html (the mail thread gets constructive beyond the first post). In this thread, there is work on proposal for the downloads pages that makes

[Gimp-developer] What next after sourceforge.net?

2015-05-28 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
Sourceforge deceived us but this problem seems to be more widespread. What are some steps we can take to avoid problems for users and inform them? (For purposes of defining malware below: A user wishes to install GIMP. The user does not expect the installer to side-load other software that is