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On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:22:50 -0300, "Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris" <gwidion@???> wrote:
> Hi Raphaël and others,
>
> Unfortunatelly I am out of time to follow up gimp-web /9and even gimp lately)
> development.
>
> But one thing that would be very important to the site, as I had pointed out
> once in the devel-list, is a straight link to the windows binaries downloads
> page.
>
>
> Currently one have to follow through 6 or 7 pages, all in English, making it
> an impossible journey for a non-English speaker to go from www.gimp.org to
> the sourceforge download page of the binaries.
>
The direct link to Windows binaries has been requested by many users.
If you go and check
http://next.gimp.org/, you will see a nice Download
button on the home page, which will allow you to get the files that you
need for your platform. You still need more than one click to get the
binaries (we have no control over the Sourceforge download page), but
at least this should be much easier than what we had for the old site.
But you raise another interesting point: some GIMP users have a very
limited understanding of English. The current web site is not easy to
navigate for those users. I don't think that we are ready to translate
the site in multiple languages (like the user manual) for two reasons:
- The current build system for the web site is not suitable for
providing pages in multiple languages. We would have to switch to a
different system before we can think about supporting more than one
language.
- We already have enough problems supporting the English version of
the web site. This can be partially blamed on the build system that
very few contributors understand fully. But we simply do not have
enough volunteers for maintaining the web site.
So for the moment, we have to live with only one language for the web
site. But in some cases, adding icons or using simple words for the
links can help the non-English speakers.
I think that the new Download button (with a download icon) will help
the users who have a limited understanding of English. But if you see
other things in the web site that could easily be improved with the
addition of small icons or with some simplification of the text or
links, please report them and suggest some improvements.
-Raphaël
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