Another wrong distro display issue.

Randicus Draco Albus · 05-24-2014, 04:34 AM

Normally I do not care about the distro icons supposedly indicating what OS a person is using. However, I did notice an "interesting" event. After I made a post, I re-opened it to repair a typo. After saving the change, I noticed a MacOS icon. ??? Using Debian, not Mac. I do not care if people can see which OS I am using. In fact I do not make a secret of it. But this? I hope this does not become common. My delicate mental state would be permanently harmed if incorrect Mac and Windows icons caused people to think I am a Heretic.

PS
I am a MacOS user again.

jeremy · 05-24-2014, 10:23 AM

Have you manually altered your UserAgent in any way? I can confirm that it's identifying itself as "Intel Mac OS X".

--jeremy

cynwulf · 05-24-2014, 11:43 AM

Most likely you're using a webkit browser, this forum's user agent icon thingy shows an apple icon for some of those usually because "apple" and "safari" appear in the user agent string.

jeremy · 05-24-2014, 08:09 PM

Using a webkit based browser on Linux would not result in an Apple icon. As I mentioned in my previous post, in this case the UserAgent explicitly contained "Intel Mac OS X".

--jeremy

frankbell · 05-24-2014, 08:57 PM

OP might try visiting this site: http://www.whatsmyuseragent.com/

It might shed some light on the situation.

Randicus Draco Albus · 05-24-2014, 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

Have you manually altered your UserAgent in any way? I can confirm that it's identifying itself as "Intel Mac OS X".

--jeremy

I do not fiddle with such things.

It happened in two posts yesterday, when I was using Midori. This post is correct, using IceWeasel (Firefox). I have not noticed what icon is displayed when using dwb. It appears to be browswer-related. cynwulf might be on to something.

Timothy Miller · 05-25-2014, 12:32 AM

Posting to test myself.

EDIT:

On my main Debian system, both Iceweasel and Chromium show up as generic linux.

jeremy · 05-25-2014, 08:54 AM

Midori on Linux identifies itself as OS X Safari when "Identify As" is set to Automatic.

--jeremy

cynwulf · 05-25-2014, 09:35 AM

I get the following user agent from dwb by default:

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/538.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/538.15

OS is Slackware64 14.1

I saw the apple mac icon, edited the post, then it changed to the (?) icon

cynwulf · 05-25-2014, 09:41 AM

And now I see the Apple icon again in that previous post again...?

luakit browser gives this useragent string:

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/538.15+ (KHTML, like Gecko) WebKitGTK+/2.4.2 luakit/0d5f4

TobiSGD · 05-25-2014, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cynwulf

I saw the apple mac icon, edited the post, then it changed to the (?) icon

When you see that icon reload the page, the icon will switch to resemble your useragent string.