On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 10:16:13 +0200 Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de> wrote:
> Hi Rory, > > Am 02.09.2018 um 09:58 schrieb Rory O'Farrell: > > On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 07:51:37 +0100 > > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 22:59:32 +0100 (WEST) > >> Pedro Lino <pedro.l...@mailbox.org> wrote: > >> > >>>> On September 1, 2018 at 10:15 PM Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > >>>> I am now using Opera 55 on Xubuntu 18.04.01 54 bit. Out of interest I > >>>> accessed the download site and it wanted to download Linux 64-bit > >>>> (x86-64) (RPM), whereas it should have been Linux 64-bit (x84-64) (DEB) > >>>> > >>>> My User Agent details are > >>>> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) > >>>> Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36 OPR/55.0.2994.44 > >>>> > >>>> On a similar Xubuntu 18.04.01 64 bit machine, using Firefox I am offered > >>>> OO Linux 64-bit (x86-64) (DEB) > >>>> > >>>> On that machine User Agent details are > >>>> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko /20100101; > >>>> Firefox/61.0 > >>> Thank you for the feedback Rory! > >>> That confirms that it's not a Firefox limitation and when Distro is not > >>> specified it will default to RPM. > >>> Does that make sense? > >>> In any case it's probably safe to say that the majority of desktop Linux > >>> users are running Ubuntu or a flavor/derivative (and those that aren't > >>> know which package to get!) > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Pedro > >> It is a good point that one might expect distro users to know what package > >> they want. > >> > >> This used be so, but experience on the en-Forum suggests that many less > >> experienced users are now moving to linux distros as an alternative from > >> other operating systems, and expect it to work "out of the box"; they do > >> not bring any technical knowledge or to their use of computers. > >> > >> If this problem is not fixed, it will escalate; we should consider what > >> causes it and try to find a solution. > > > > I should say that on the en-Forum we have had a small number of cases > > recently of (new?) linux users downloadiung the wrong (RPM or tar.gz > > instead of DEB) OpenOffice version. We had put this down to unfamiliarity > > on the User's part, but it may have been an early indication of this > > problem. After detailed enquiries we were able to redirect them to the > > correct OO version, but it would be best if the problem could be solved so > > that the version choice was automatic (as it used be). > > As it used to be? I used the Firefox from the Ubuntu distro, and assumed that was a "standard" Firefox. Rory > > The logic for downloads is in here: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/download/download.js > > It has "always" been this way, but maybe we can now find a way to > enhance the detection? > > Regards, > Matthias > > > > > > > - > > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
