Re: [Gimp-developer] wtf with the download?

[C R <cajhne gmail com>]

It does say "via BitTorrent" on the teal link.
There's a good case to be made for just listing the torrent file as a
smaller text-link after the orange download button, though. If I had my
way, we would not be listing a torrent at all for windows users, as there
are far too many things that can go wrong for that platform. However, I'm
trying to present a solution that everyone is okay with. Esp the developers
who will, in the end, be applying these patches to the site. Most of the
devs have been supportive of keeping the torrent link (at least as)
prominent as the direct download link.

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Alan Pater <alan pater gmail com> wrote:

> Are people going to read the fine print or just pick their favourite
> colour? Perhaps the second option might read GIMP Torrent.
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 7:43 AM, C R <cajhne gmail com> wrote:
> > I have developed the html for the buttons. A test can be found here:
> > http://opendesignstudio.org/gimp/samples/
> >
> > Note I have also changed the text a bit to reflect Michael's latest
> > comments: http://opendesignstudio.org/gimp/samples/
> >
> > Note also that the links to not ink to real files, as I have set them to
> > the git repository values, which are replaced with the urls on the
> backend.
> > Comments?
> >
> > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de>
> wrote:
> > > On 05/14/2015 08:47 AM, C R wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > To save retyping, here is the current text:
> > >
> > > we do not really have to worry about bandwidth usage (could be that the
> > > webserver config is the limiting factor) and especially not about fees.
> > >
> > > This allows us to make the texts a bit easier, and focus on the user
> > > experience:
> > >
> > > > This link downloads the GIMP executable for Windows platforms via
> > > gimp.org. It
> > > > can be a bit slow at times, so if you are having problems, try the
> > > > link below for download via BitTorrent
> > >
> > > For BitTorrent, all of our torrents are set up with multiple web seeds,
> > > so this will work even without seeders. As I wrote before , we tested
> > > this in a university network at a conference, where torrent traffic was
> > > blocked, and it did work this way).
> > >
> > > > BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing system.
> > > > BitTorrent works by downloading GIMP from a distributed network of
> > > > mirror sites and from other BitTorrent users called "seeders". Learn
> > > more...
> > >
> > > What would be nice to have is a diff to the current download site (or
> > > maybe even only the Windows.htrw part of it).
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Michael
> > > GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4CDD
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