[Gimp-web] menu structure

[Raphaël Quinet]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:53:29 +0200, Sven Neumann <sven at gimp.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 20:26 +0100, David Marrs wrote:
> > > The download button should really be a direct link to the file, without
> > > having to go through the intermediate pages.
> > I hear you. If all goes well with 2.4's all-in-one installer then this won't be 
> > an issue. Otherwise we can redesign or remove the feature at a later date. For 
> > now I think the current link is a good compromise.
> 

Note that if you compare with Mozilla, you will see that the download
button is only visible when a direct link to the installer can be
provided.  For the platforms that have no pre-compiled package, the
download button is replaced by a simple link (no button) where users
can download the source code or follow links to other sites providing
unofficial packages ("contributed builds").

So the download button should only appear if we can provide a direct
link to the pre-compiled package, not if we point users to the source
code.

> Well, so far we explicitely did not want to provide a one-click binary
> installation from www.gimp.org. The rule is that the GIMP team only
> provides the source code. Precompiled binaries are left to other parties
> and so is their distribution. If this is supposed to be changed, then it
> should be discussed beforehand. And it probably needs to be discussed in
> a wider audience than this list. I suggest you bring this up on the
> gimp-developer list.

Yes, let's discuss that on the gimp-developer list.  Because if we do
not want to provide one-click binary installation, then we should not
have a download button on the home page.

-Raphaël