<div dir="ltr">Hi <div style>Just out of Curiosity .. </div><div style>Why are Download Statistics so important? Just to compare with "commercial" Software and their selling amounts?</div><div style>Personally I find download numbers interesting but .. well - we will never know how many users we really have.</div>
<div style>I also agree with Radim that such a question is annoying (but at least you are going to get asked - and not just raped like with other software ;) )<br></div><div style>Do we really have to counterfeit our own statistics?</div>
<div style>I think we do have a lot of Users.. Isn't that enough?</div><div style>Of course it would be interesting how many people are using it under MacOS or Linux but .. what are we doing with that numbers? <br></div>
<div style>Regarding the Windows downloads we have an increasing number of downloads .. isn't that enough to know?<br></div><div style>It's not that I am against such polls but .. what's the real benefit?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>and this is not meant offending - I am really only interested why it would be important to know exact numbers ..</div><div style><br></div><div style>kind regards</div><div style>Werner</div>
<div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Paolo Cavallini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it" target="_blank">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Il 22/02/2013 08:47, Nathan Woodrow ha scritto:<br>
> I agree with Radim please don't make this a popup at the start of the<br>
> application. That would be really annoying.<br>
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Right - why not adding it to the installation procedure instead?<br>
This will work on windows, not on Linux though.<br>
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> If you would like to collect this information then I would happy to<br>
> have something that lives in the About menu that people can optionally<br>
> use and is non intrusive.<br>
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We can do that, but I guess very few people will use it.<br>
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All the best.<br>
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