> On Feb. 10, 2014, 8:37 p.m., Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> > Well the platform name was added for compatibility with what Firefox at the
> > time. And Chromium seems to have adapted that as well.
> >
> > The latest stable version of Firefox (version 27) for example sends the
> > following user agent string by default:
> >
> > "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0"
> >
> > And the latest Chromium (version 32) sends the following:
> >
> > "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
> > Chrome/32.0.1700.107 Safari/537.36"
> >
> > So removing the platform name from the user-agent string might have
> > consequences on sites that rely on it.
>
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> ok, sounds like that is needed. Then we need a solution to make it work
> again. At all: any suggestions on how we can get the GUI platform in a core
> application?
Probably not very reliable, but maybe qEnvironmentVariableIsSet("DISPLAY")?
- Alexander
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On Feb. 10, 2014, 10:15 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 10, 2014, 10:15 a.m.)
>
>
> Review request for KDE Frameworks, Dawit Alemayehu and Bernhard Beschow.
>
>
> Repository: kio
>
>
> Description
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>
> Drop platform name from default user agent string
>
> The platform name (e.g. X11) was currently broken on compile time.
> On Linux it returned unknown and on all other platforms the same
> name as already included in the OS name.
>
> We cannot really determine the platform name as this is a core
> application and the Qt's platform name is only available in a GUI
> application. Compile time is no solution as we cannot know whether
> the binary is executed on X11, Wayland, Android or whatever.
>
>
> Diffs
> -----
>
> src/core/kprotocolmanager.cpp f81b6797887eebd868c36b98e867eb055b05a1e2
>
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115613/diff/
>
>
> Testing
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>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin Gräßlin
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>
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