Space Requirements (Dependencies)

[Michael Gratton]

On 20 September 2018 10:44:05 Douglas Summers <ajgringo619 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Personally I prefer the Flatpak system - everything just seems cleaner.
> But how should I explain this to a new user that freaked out over
> seeing 2 GB required for GIMP 2.10 when 2.8 was less than 62 MB?

This seems like a UX issue. Providing a breakdown of download sizes (for 
example, "62Mb + dependencies" with a popover for full details) would at 
least provide an idea of where the data is going and why.

//Mike