Re: [Gimp-developer] WGO Update Status

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 10/05/2015 09:37 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1/ Is it possible to force the download page at least to be https?
> There are some companies which provides free certificates with root CA
> in all mainstream browsers.
>
> This would be a prerequisite to pretend to provide safe download. For
> instance I see the page provides checksums, which is good but is half
> meaningless if not provided through a secure channel like https (half
> because it still allows download corruption check, but not malevolent
> corruption integrity check).

Also regarding the download page, checksums are nice, but many users 
won't know why they are important or how to use them. Step by step 
instructions (or a link to same) would be nice. Probably different 
instructions would be needed for Linux, Windows, and Mac users.

I don't understand the point of the long list of tar.bz2 files. They 
almost look like they should be links.

It would be nice to see a link to Partha's website for Windows and Mac 
users. Leastways I always refer Windows users to Partha's builds.

There doesn't seem to be enough visual indication of when the 
"topic/subtopic" on the page has changed. Studying the contents, 
obviously there's a well-thought-out underlying outline/organization. 
But visually it's not obvious (well, not obvious to me anyway) where the 
major breaks are.

Elle