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

[Robert Krawitz <rlk alum mit edu>]

On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 01:40:10 +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote:
> On 06/01/2015 01:14 AM, Gez wrote:
> > El dom, 31-05-2015 a las 17:14 +0100, C R escribió:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Hi,
> > I just followed the previous posts and I confirm that it looked bad
> > before you trimmed the text as Michael said.
> > Now text fits, but the problem wasn't the length of text but its font.
>
> > Thank you for taking care of this. Let me know if you need a hand.
>
> This change is live now - it was rather easy to apply into the current
> layout. Thanks, C R.
>
> I've tested it on
> http://testing.gimp.org/downloads/
>
> and started the deployment to
> http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

I like the look of that.  I suggest that the same change be made to
the Mac native installer.
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