Wine download page usability problem

Kai Blin kai.blin at gmail.com
Sun Feb 22 13:33:52 CST 2009


On Sunday 22 February 2009 15:51:31 Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Kai Blin <kai.blin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html
> >
> > Konqueror 3.5 on an unknown distribution Linux an unknown CPU!
> > userAgent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.10
> > (like Gecko) (Kubuntu)
>
> Yeah, that's https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332339, and rather
> unlikely to be fixed unless a lot of people push for it.

No, it's not. You can see that the userAgent string contains (Kubuntu).

I'm not sure if I turned this on at some point in the past, but it's not 
parsed correctly in any case.

> I think the upshot of this experiement is that
> we should use the useragent info when it's helpful
> (which is most of the time, since Firefox on Ubuntu
> and several othe distros has the needed info),
> and just keep on as we were doing when it's not
> (which should only be 20% or so of the time).

+1

Cheers,
Kai

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