Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-22 Thread Kai Blin

 Next idea: why don't we detect the user's distro via javascript, and
 put a targeted link to the 'right' package above the table?

 Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html
 and let me know if it detects your distro properly,
 I'll fix it up as needed.

 I'm kind of excited about this technique for cleaning up install flows...
 - Dan

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)

Cheers,
Kai

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Wine developerhttp://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin
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Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-22 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Kai Blin kai.b...@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.

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).
- Dan




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-22 Thread Kai Blin
On Sunday 22 February 2009 15:51:31 Dan Kegel wrote:
 On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Kai Blin kai.b...@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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WorldForge developer  http://www.worldforge.org/
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Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-22 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Kai Blin kai.b...@gmail.com wrote:
  Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html

 You can see that the userAgent string contains (Kubuntu)...

Oh, right, thanks.  I've added a lower-case ubuntu to the list,
can you try again?  (The search should be case-
insensitive, but I haven't bothered to look up how to do that
in Javascript, since we want to do this on the server side
anyway...)
- Dan




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Austin English
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:
 I got email from a friend who complained how
 hard it was to install wine.  Turns out he
 assumed he had to go to winehq.org and
 follow the download instructions there,
 when all he needed to do was do
 Applications / Add/Remove and pick Wine.

 Can we add in a line at the top saying
 Stable version 1.0.1 of Wine can usually be installed
  just like any other Linux application using your
  package manager (e.g. in Ubuntu, do Applications / Add/Remove,
  select Wine, and click Apply Changes).

Nitpick, but instead of 'Linux', use 'native'. FreeBSD's ports
contains wine, as well as NetBSD's.

 I think we should also move the text
 This endorsement is the primary recognition that CodeWeavers has
 requested in exchange for hosting the Wine web site.
 to the bottom of the page, and change it to read
 Thanks to CodeWeavers for hosting WineHQ.org.

+1


-- 
-Austin




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread James Mckenzie
Austin English austinengl...@gmail.com wrote:
Sent: Feb 20, 2009 10:32 AM
To: Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com
Cc: wine-devel@winehq.org wine-devel@winehq.org
Subject: Re: Wine download page usability problem

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:

 Can we add in a line at the top saying
 Stable version 1.0.1 of Wine can usually be installed
  just like any other Linux application using your
  package manager (e.g. in Ubuntu, do Applications / Add/Remove,
  select Wine, and click Apply Changes).

Nitpick, but instead of 'Linux', use 'native'. FreeBSD's ports
contains wine, as well as NetBSD's.

Please exclude MacOSX which does not include Wine and I doubt it ever will.

 I think we should also move the text
 This endorsement is the primary recognition that CodeWeavers has
 requested in exchange for hosting the Wine web site.
 to the bottom of the page, and change it to read
 Thanks to CodeWeavers for hosting WineHQ.org.

+1

++1

James McKenzie





Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Austin English
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:37 AM, James Mckenzie
jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net wrote:
 Austin English austinengl...@gmail.com wrote:
Sent: Feb 20, 2009 10:32 AM
To: Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com
Cc: wine-devel@winehq.org wine-devel@winehq.org
Subject: Re: Wine download page usability problem

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:

 Can we add in a line at the top saying
 Stable version 1.0.1 of Wine can usually be installed
  just like any other Linux application using your
  package manager (e.g. in Ubuntu, do Applications / Add/Remove,
  select Wine, and click Apply Changes).

Nitpick, but instead of 'Linux', use 'native'. FreeBSD's ports
contains wine, as well as NetBSD's.

 Please exclude MacOSX which does not include Wine and I doubt it ever will.

MacOSX doesn't have a native/builtin package manager that is used to
download and install applications. Fink/etc. come close, but A) they
aren't there by default and B) that's why the qualifier 'usually' is
there.

-- 
-Austin




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Jeremy White
 I think we should also move the text
 This endorsement is the primary recognition that CodeWeavers has
 requested in exchange for hosting the Wine web site.
 to the bottom of the page, and change it to read
 Thanks to CodeWeavers for hosting WineHQ.org.
 
 +1

To be very honest, that would hurt.

We get an appreciable amount of traffic from that more prominent
location, and that traffic helps to pay our salaries.

I feel that it is reasonable for us to ask for that prominent
placement, given our contributions, particularly since we're
quite honest and clear about it.

Cheers,

Jeremy




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Rosanne DiMesio
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:24:09 -0800
Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:

 
 Can we add in a line at the top saying
 Stable version 1.0.1 of Wine can usually be installed
  just like any other Linux application using your
  package manager (e.g. in Ubuntu, do Applications / Add/Remove,
  select Wine, and click Apply Changes).
 
  If that doesn't work, or if you need a newer version of Wine,
  here's how to get it.
 ?


The problem with the way you've phrased it is that it's simply not true. Ubuntu 
users have complained on the forum more than once that there are no 1.0.1 
packages in their repository. I've also never seen any 1.0.1 packages for 
openSUSE in any of the repositories or the Sourceforge archive.

Take out the Stable version 1.0.1 of and it works. 




-- 
Rosanne DiMesio dime...@earthlink.net




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Kegel
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Jeremy White jwh...@winehq.org wrote:
 I think we should also move the text
 This endorsement is the primary recognition that CodeWeavers has
 requested in exchange for hosting the Wine web site.
 to the bottom of the page, and change it to read
 Thanks to CodeWeavers for hosting WineHQ.org.

 To be very honest, that would hurt.

 We get an appreciable amount of traffic from that more prominent
 location, and that traffic helps to pay our salaries.

I'm not proposing moving the download link, just the
endorsement, which currently isn't a link.
(We should probably turn the endorsement into a link.)

 I feel that it is reasonable for us to ask for that prominent
 placement, given our contributions, particularly since we're
 quite honest and clear about it.

No argument there, but the thing you want prominently placed is the
download link, not the thankyou, right?




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Jeremy White
 No argument there, but the thing you want prominently placed is the
 download link, not the thankyou, right?

Oh, sorry; I didn't understand.

I was trying to be honorable on this point by clearly revealing why
that prominent placement was given to us; a truth in advertising
sort of thing.

I can see that it consumes vertical white space, and I
can get over myself.  I remove my objection :-/.

Cheers,

Jeremy




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:47:16AM -0600, Rosanne DiMesio wrote:
 On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:24:09 -0800
 Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:
 
  
  Can we add in a line at the top saying
  Stable version 1.0.1 of Wine can usually be installed
   just like any other Linux application using your
   package manager (e.g. in Ubuntu, do Applications / Add/Remove,
   select Wine, and click Apply Changes).
  
   If that doesn't work, or if you need a newer version of Wine,
   here's how to get it.
  ?
 
 
 The problem with the way you've phrased it is that it's simply not true. 
 Ubuntu users have complained on the forum more than once that there are no 
 1.0.1 packages in their repository. I've also never seen any 1.0.1 packages 
 for openSUSE in any of the repositories or the Sourceforge archive.
 
 Take out the Stable version 1.0.1 of and it works. 

I actually build them, in 
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/STABLE/distro
but up to adding them I never had a single request for the stable version.

I think the regular downloading user might not be interested,
and our regular development releases are stable enough.

Ciao, Marcus




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Kegel
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Jeremy White jwh...@winehq.org wrote:
 I can see that it consumes vertical white space, and I
 can get over myself.  I remove my objection :-/.

Thanks!

Next idea: why don't we detect the user's distro via javascript, and
put a targeted link to the 'right' package above the table?

Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html
and let me know if it detects your distro properly,
I'll fix it up as needed.

I'm kind of excited about this technique for cleaning up install flows...
- Dan




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Daniel Verkamp
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:
[...]
 Next idea: why don't we detect the user's distro via javascript, and
 put a targeted link to the 'right' package above the table?

 Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html
 and let me know if it detects your distro properly,
 I'll fix it up as needed.

 I'm kind of excited about this technique for cleaning up install flows...
 - Dan


On Gentoo with www-client/mozilla-firefox (not mozilla-firefox-bin)
the page just detects unknown distribution Linux.

Thanks,
-- Daniel Verkamp




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread IneedAname
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:40:28 -0800
Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:

 Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html
 and let me know if it detects your distro properly,
 I'll fix it up as needed.

It does not my detect distro version. Can that be done?




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Juan Lang
 Next idea: why don't we detect the user's distro via javascript, and
 put a targeted link to the 'right' package above the table?

Can we also have a non-Javascript page, please?  People with
accessibility issues, and crufty old curmudgeons like me who disable
Javascript by default, would appreciate it.
--Juan




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Kegel
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Daniel Verkamp dan...@drv.nu wrote:
 Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html
 and let me know if it detects your distro properly,

 On Gentoo with www-client/mozilla-firefox (not mozilla-firefox-bin)
 the page just detects unknown distribution Linux.

Try it now...




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Kegel
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Juan Lang juan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
 Next idea: why don't we detect the user's distro via javascript, and
 put a targeted link to the 'right' package above the table?

 Can we also have a non-Javascript page, please?  People with
 accessibility issues, and crufty old curmudgeons like me who disable
 Javascript by default, would appreciate it.

Of course.  I think we should only have a single page,
and if Javascript is active, it should simply work better.




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Matt 'Murph' Finnicum
For me, it got Gentoo just fine.

using: www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.1_beta2-r1

You're using Firefox 3.1 on Gentoo Linux!

--Murph

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Daniel Verkamp dan...@drv.nu wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:
 [...]
 Next idea: why don't we detect the user's distro via javascript, and
 put a targeted link to the 'right' package above the table?

 Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html
 and let me know if it detects your distro properly,
 I'll fix it up as needed.

 I'm kind of excited about this technique for cleaning up install flows...
 - Dan


 On Gentoo with www-client/mozilla-firefox (not mozilla-firefox-bin)
 the page just detects unknown distribution Linux.

 Thanks,
 -- Daniel Verkamp







Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Daniel Verkamp
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Daniel Verkamp dan...@drv.nu wrote:
 Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html
 and let me know if it detects your distro properly,

 On Gentoo with www-client/mozilla-firefox (not mozilla-firefox-bin)
 the page just detects unknown distribution Linux.

 Try it now...


Indeed, works now.  (As a side note, since there are no Gentoo
packages on the download page, maybe it makes sense to point the user
at some appropriate documentation about how to install it.)




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Erich Hoover
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:

 On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Juan Lang juan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
  Next idea: why don't we detect the user's distro via javascript, and
  put a targeted link to the 'right' package above the table?
 
  Can we also have a non-Javascript page, please?  People with
  accessibility issues, and crufty old curmudgeons like me who disable
  Javascript by default, would appreciate it.

 Of course.  I think we should only have a single page,
 and if Javascript is active, it should simply work better.


You could use the HTTP_USER_AGENT environment variable to do a first-order
attempt.  That way for people with Javascript disabled there's at least a
chance you'll detect their distribution.

Erich Hoover
ehoo...@mines.edu



Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread David Gerard
2009/2/20 Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com:

 Next idea: why don't we detect the user's distro via javascript, and
 put a targeted link to the 'right' package above the table?
 Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html
 and let me know if it detects your distro properly,
 I'll fix it up as needed.


You're running
Mozilla 1.9 on an unknown distribution Windows!

(Actually Firefox 3.1 in Wine on Ubuntu, but there's nothing in the
user-agent that says it's not Windows ;-) )


- d.




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Vít Hrachový
Hi Dan,
Firefox 3.1b2 on OpenSolaris 2008.11 returns: 'unknown distribution of 
an unknown OS'.
Cheers
Hark

Dan Kegel wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Jeremy White jwh...@winehq.org wrote:
 I can see that it consumes vertical white space, and I
 can get over myself.  I remove my objection :-/.
 
 Thanks!
 
 Next idea: why don't we detect the user's distro via javascript, and
 put a targeted link to the 'right' package above the table?
 
 Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html
 and let me know if it detects your distro properly,
 I'll fix it up as needed.
 
 I'm kind of excited about this technique for cleaning up install flows...
 - Dan
 
 





Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Rosanne DiMesio
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:40:28 -0800
Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:

 On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Jeremy White jwh...@winehq.org wrote:
  I can see that it consumes vertical white space, and I
  can get over myself.  I remove my objection :-/.
 
 Thanks!
 
 Next idea: why don't we detect the user's distro via javascript, and
 put a targeted link to the 'right' package above the table?
 
 Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html
 and let me know if it detects your distro properly,
 I'll fix it up as needed.
 
 I'm kind of excited about this technique for cleaning up install flows...
 - Dan
 


You're running

Firefox 3 on an unknown distribution Linux!

(That's for Firefox 3 on openSUSE 10.3).



-- 
Rosanne DiMesio dime...@earthlink.net




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Kegel
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Erich Hoover ehoo...@mines.edu wrote:
 You could use the HTTP_USER_AGENT environment variable to do a first-order
 attempt.  That way for people with Javascript disabled there's at least a
 chance you'll detect their distribution.

Yeah, we could probably do it all in php instead of javascript.




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Remco
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:
 Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html
 and let me know if it detects your distro properly,
 I'll fix it up as needed.

You're running

Firefox 3 on an unknown distribution Linux!

Actually: Epiphany 2.24.1 on Ubuntu 8.10 x86-64




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Remco
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:
 Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html
 and let me know if it detects your distro properly,
 I'll fix it up as needed.

It's probably a more useful test if you also print the reported user
agent string. (By the way, Dan, could you somehow coerce your
colleagues into making a bottom-posting Gmail? ;) )

Remco




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Erich Hoover
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:
  Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html
  and let me know if it detects your distro properly,
  I'll fix it up as needed.

 It's probably a more useful test if you also print the reported user
 agent string. (By the way, Dan, could you somehow coerce your
 colleagues into making a bottom-posting Gmail? ;) )

 Remco


Seconded.  Attached is a simple (read: dumb) distro finder in PHP.

Erich Hoover
ehoo...@mines.edu
attachment: distro.php



Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Remco
And now also to the list:

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:

 Please try again, and paste the entire output page, I've added more info.

 Thanks!


 Firefox 3 on an unknown distribution Linux!

 userAgent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en; rv:1.9.0.6)
 Gecko/20080528 Epiphany/2.22 Firefox/3.0

 I don't think you're gonna be able to get the distribution name out of
 that... a problem with Epiphany I guess.

 Remco





Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Kegel
 Firefox 3 on an unknown distribution Linux!

 userAgent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en; rv:1.9.0.6)
 Gecko/20080528 Epiphany/2.22 Firefox/3.0

 I don't think you're gonna be able to get the distribution name out of
 that... a problem with Epiphany I guess.

Right, same with Konqueror.  Fortunately, web access logs on kegel.com show
that an overwhelming majority of visitors do specify the distro;
the first entry that doesn't (Konqueror) is only #14 and accounts
for a small percentage.  And even then we won't break,
we'll just show the current download page.

 69 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.2; Linux) KHTML/4.2.0 (like Gecko)
 72 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de;  Gecko Ubuntu/8.10
(intrepid) Firefox/3.0.6
 73 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;  Gecko Ubuntu/8.10
(intrepid) Firefox/3.0.3
 74 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US;  Gecko Ubuntu/8.04
(hardy) Firefox/3.0.6
 75 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;  Gecko
Fedora/3.0.6-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.6
 78 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; zh-CN;  Gecko Ubuntu/8.10
(intrepid) Firefox/3.0.6
 81 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;  Gecko
Iceweasel/2.0.0.19 (Debian-2.0.0.19-0etch1)
 87 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;  Gecko GranParadiso/3.0.6
114 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;  Gecko Gentoo Firefox/3.0.5
138 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;  Gecko
Mandriva/1.9.0.5-0.1mdv2009.0 (2009.0) Firefox/3.0.5
150 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;  Gecko GranParadiso/3.0.5
229 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;  Gecko Ubuntu/8.04
(hardy) Firefox/3.0.6
254 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US;  Gecko Ubuntu/8.10
(intrepid) Firefox/3.0.6
832 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;  Gecko Ubuntu/8.10
(intrepid) Firefox/3.0.6




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Remco
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote:
 Firefox 3 on an unknown distribution Linux!

 userAgent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en; rv:1.9.0.6)
 Gecko/20080528 Epiphany/2.22 Firefox/3.0

 I don't think you're gonna be able to get the distribution name out of
 that... a problem with Epiphany I guess.

 Remco

Filed a bug with epiphany-browser:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/epiphany-browser/+bug/332253

Remco




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Erich Hoover
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote:
  Firefox 3 on an unknown distribution Linux!
 
  userAgent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en; rv:1.9.0.6)
  Gecko/20080528 Epiphany/2.22 Firefox/3.0
 
  I don't think you're gonna be able to get the distribution name out of
  that... a problem with Epiphany I guess.
 
  Remco

 Filed a bug with epiphany-browser:

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/epiphany-browser/+bug/332253

 Remco

 See if any of the properties on this page will reveal your distro:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.navigator

Hint: you can test them by running them in the address bar, ie:
javascript:alert(window.navigator.vendor);

Erich Hoover
ehoo...@mines.edu



Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/21 Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com:
 Can we add in a line at the top saying
 Stable version 1.0.1 of Wine can usually be installed
  just like any other Linux application using your
  package manager (e.g. in Ubuntu, do Applications / Add/Remove,
  select Wine, and click Apply Changes).

I know some versions of Ubuntu ship with 1.0.1 in official
repositories, but I don't know of any other distros that do.

Regarding the browser-detection, server-side scripting is the best
way. I'm always against needlessly adding Javascript to pages. What
I'd like to see is some option to view the full list of
distros/sources even when the detection worked. Something like:

To see download pages for more distributions, click here

It can be useful to be able to see one system's instructions from
another, especially when doing user support.




RE: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Rolf Kalbermatter
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:
 Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html and let me know if it 
 detects your distro properly, I'll fix it up as needed.You're running 

Firefox 3 on an unknown distribution Windows an unknown CPU!

Firefox 3.0.6 on Windows XP SP3

userAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6)
Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6

Rolf Kalbermatter
 





Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:02:16PM +0100, Rolf Kalbermatter wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:
  Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html and let me know if it 
  detects your distro properly, I'll fix it up as needed.You're running 
 
 Firefox 3 on an unknown distribution Windows an unknown CPU!
 
 Firefox 3.0.6 on Windows XP SP3
 
 userAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6)
 Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6
 


You're running 
 Konqueror 3.5 on an unknown distribution Linux an unknown CPU!
 Please let Dan Kegel (d...@kegel.com) know if this isn't accurate. Please 
include the incorrect output, the correct distro name, and the following 
information: 
 userAgent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5) KHTML/3.5.9 (like Gecko) SUSE

(openSUSE 11.0)

Ciao, Marcus




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Kegel
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote:
 Filed a bug with epiphany-browser:

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/epiphany-browser/+bug/332253

Thanks.  I filed one for Konqueror,

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/332340

-Dan




Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Scott Ritchie
Rosanne DiMesio wrote:
 On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:24:09 -0800
 Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote:
 
 Can we add in a line at the top saying
 Stable version 1.0.1 of Wine can usually be installed
  just like any other Linux application using your
  package manager (e.g. in Ubuntu, do Applications / Add/Remove,
  select Wine, and click Apply Changes).

  If that doesn't work, or if you need a newer version of Wine,
  here's how to get it.
 ?
 
 
 The problem with the way you've phrased it is that it's simply not true. 
 Ubuntu users have complained on the forum more than once that there are no 
 1.0.1 packages in their repository. I've also never seen any 1.0.1 packages 
 for openSUSE in any of the repositories or the Sourceforge archive.
 

1.0.1 is included in Ubuntu 8.10.  8.04 still has 1.0.0 though.  I think
I started a backport a long time ago, but I guess it never finished.


Thanks,
Scott Ritchie