On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Scott Ritchie wrote:

Here is an email I got from my mother:

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Scott I was looking online at drawing techniques when I found that someone recommended GIMP. GIMP is which is supposed to be an open source image editing software that is a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop and other commercial applications generally used by Linux users. Have you heard of it? When I went to the website it directed me to another website where I had do some programing after I downloaded it. Mom

wikiHow install GIMP

Scott, I'm not sure what it has to do with gimp.org at all. We don't maintain wikihow.

first website
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

This one is an older website. People shouldn't end up there at all these days.

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.

Alexandre

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.

Regards,
Michael
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Michael Schumacher 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

On 31.12.2013 23:30, Shawn Amundson wrote:

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.

It did this because you are using a Linux or Unix platform. If you are using a Windows platform, it'll show the Windows download links and hide the others. And this seems to work pretty well.

Regards,
Michael
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