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@tobiasdiez tobiasdiez commented Mar 10, 2025

Follow-up to #2581 with the following changes:

  • Make button text easier to understand for non-technical users (eg "Download for Windows" instead of ".msi")
  • The first download button on the website directly downloads the file that most likely works for the given user (and added a link for further download options)
  • Deemphasize the portable installations

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feat: revise download interface
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Follow-up to #2581 with the following changes:
- Make button text easier to understand for non-technical users (eg "Download for Windows" instead of ".msi")
- The first download button on the website directly downloads the file that most likely works for the given user (and added a link for further download options)
- Deemphasize the portable installations
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tobiasdiez commented Mar 10, 2025

@JabRef/developers two further questions:

  • Why don't we provide universal installers for macos instead of intel/arm-specifc ones?
  • Do we really need options for dmg and pkg on macos? Isn't pkg enough?

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tobiasdiez commented Mar 11, 2025

Pkg contains the scripts for browser extensions

So, indeed installing via .dmg provides a suboptimal experience and users will not know about this difference, right?

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Siedlerchr commented Mar 17, 2025

There are people who can't use the installer and so have to use the dmg, it's like about the portable version

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koppor commented Mar 17, 2025

We do offer protable versions for Windows and Linux. Thus, we should provide DMG for mac. No oversimplification please.

Keep both options for macOS. Default: pkg.

(We did not see a screenshot in the DevCall, thus we comment "blindly").

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tobiasdiez commented Mar 18, 2025

Keep both options for macOS. Default: pkg.

Okay done!

(We did not see a screenshot in the DevCall, thus we comment "blindly").

Every PR here is automatically deployed to a test environment where you can see the preview. See #2638 (comment).

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koppor commented Mar 19, 2025

Keep both options for macOS. Default: pkg.

Okay done!

(We did not see a screenshot in the DevCall, thus we comment "blindly").

Every PR here is automatically deployed to a test environment where you can see the preview. See #2638 (comment).

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But I think, it is deleted, because it is merged. Thus, OK. It is good that a bot comments with the URL.

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