alternately, we could just change the link text to something else so the user doesn't think that the link will lead directly to an .msi file?
----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christophe Fergeau" <[email protected]> > To: "Anthony Loiseau" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 8:52:07 AM > Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] virt-viewer for Windows is quite difficult to > download > > Hey, > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 02:12:47PM +0100, Anthony Loiseau wrote: > > Dear spice developpers and dear spice-space website maintainers, > > > > For you to know, the link to download virt viewer windows installer (msi > > file) is currently buggy. > > > > Page : http://www.spice-space.org/download.html > > extract : " virt-viewer Windows installer - 32 bit - > > virt-viewer-x86.msi<http://virt-manager.org/download/> > > " > > > > > > The link is coded as this, which force the user to download the HTML page > > containing the final MSI download link. > > <a *type="application/octet-stream"* > > href="http://virt-manager.org/download/"; > > download="">virt-viewer-x86.msi</a> > > Hmm why 'download'? Do you mean the user needs to access that page, and > then click on the right link? If so, this is intentional so that we don't > have to update the link on spice-space.org every time a new virt-viewer > windows build is available. > > Maybe the virt-viewer people would be ok with having a virt-viewer-x86.msi > symlink which would point to the latest release, and we could link to that, > dunno how convenient this would be for them. > > Thanks for the feedback, > > Christophe > > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel > _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
