On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Melissa Golobish <vataraven@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Not sure if it's possible or maybe this was even thought about, but could > someone upload Gimp to Steam? > > The team behind Blender has uploaded to Steam, and I think doing this would > allow for easier updates and community interaction, and could also make > sharing community plug-in easier > It has been mentioned on the user list as well as the developer list. http://www.mail-archive.com/gimp-user-list%40gnome.org/msg04505.html http://www.mail-archive.com/gimp-developer-list%40gnome.org/msg04651.html (this thread has a lot of discussion) The TLDR at the time was developers didn't want to distribute through a proprietary platform or require users to have a Steam account to download. I was then, and still now, of the opinion it would be great to distribute through Steam in *addition* to our normal download channels for obtaining GIMP. Some of the modelers and game mod developers use GIMP to create textures for their models. As it stands, I don't think Steam will be a considered distribution channel unless a core developer wishes to speak up with a change of opinion. It would also require a contributor to get familiar with the Steam release process and provide steam releases as GIMP is released. -- I prefer to encrypt my email GPG FINGERPRINT 4096 KEY 8D8B F0E2 42D8 A068 572E BF3C E8F7 3234 7257 E65F https://keybase.io/samrocketman Learn how to encrypt your email with the Email Self Defense guide: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
