i am ok with OS icons!
but as others mentioned we should not feel shame posting from windows cause maybe my linux not working and maybe i am not using my box at all to post (i am work 4 example) and posters should be aware that posting from an OS may or may not have anything to do with the question (it may help poster to give more useful/useless advice) so when asking for help people better mention their distro or post in a relevant forum

just my 2 cents

I don't get any bubble text. Probably some Firefox security hardening setting is preventing it. What does it say?

The bubble text gets enabled/disabled by an about:config setting, regarding something about 'popups' or 'balloons' or something like that.

Unfortunately, it's a single, global setting. Personally, I like the balloons when I'm hovering over a thread title, or a link on the LQ Spy, but along with that comes balloons from every single thing all over Firefox's GUI :| which I don't like much.

EDIT: browser.chrome.toolbar_tips is the tooltip balloon thing. Your Pengy says, "catkin is online now"

Sasha

This is a test. Let's see if it works with Opera...

EDIT: Yes, it works! For those, who don't want to read all the 14 pages of posts, here's how you can set opera to send the needed distribution value.

I guess it is not a very good idea to try to guess the distribution the post originated from after all. Even if I agree to change the browser configuration and maintain the change after updates, I will have to configure Firefox, Seamonkey, and Konqueror to be sure. It is easier to configure the icon in the profile, but that would be redundant since the distribution is already there.

What if the icon just shows what the user agent reports? If the agent reports "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.2; Linux) KHTML/4.2.4 (like Gecko)", there may be enough interesting data to encode into an icon. It may be even more interesting to see that than the distribution.

testing with firefox 3.7a.1.pre

I wonder what the record is for longest thread?

This one is already up to 11 pages.

I think the original 'post your screenshot' thread was up to 4 figures and the 'win v lin megathread' is getting pretty high.

test

I'm wondering whether it is necessary to prefix each linux distro name with "linux". Version number would be more useful info.

^I also think the same. No need to prefix linux with linux distros. Windows prefix is OK for M$'s OS.

The "linux" is only in the alt tag and the current implementation actually depends on it.

--jeremy

You mean 5 pages -- I have my LQ options set to 50 posts per page. This should be is post #209.

TestPost: Posting from Windows XP Pro _ Service Pack 3 using Internet Explorer 8 as browser
Woops:- editing it causes Operating Systen icon to dissappear