Oh, Sorry!! I didn't realize that. Is there a thread for testing?

There is a thread for testing. It's linked to a couple times in this thread.

--jeremy

I don't think so. And I don't have a burning desire to do so.

I was unaware that (apparently) most other GUI web browsers use F5 for refresh. Before posting, I intended/tried to check it in FF. Apparently I wasn't too competent at that moment. If I had seen FF used it, I never would have posted.

I'm now running Puppy with SeaMonkey, and while the View menu shows Ctrl+R for Refresh, F5 does, in fact, work (at least for me).

Cheers

Perhaps Puppy modified SeaMonkey so that F5 refreshed? My source of SeaMonkey is seamonkey-1.1.18.en-US.linux-i686.installer.tar.gz from the www.seamonkey-project.org site.

My testing page was http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy. Ctrl-R caused a brief appearance of the progress bar while F5 did not. Just to be quadrupally sure, I repeated the test with (in both cases)

running.

BTW, it was never my intent to launch this side discussion on this thread. I was not familar with F5. I thought I had tested it with FF and I thought the poster that mentioned it might be making an incorrect assumption about its generality. (Yet, clearly, I am the one with egg on hist face!) Yet, throughout this discussion, I have wondered where F5 as refresh came from. Pardon my saying so, but it just smells like something Microsoft created. May as well thow that out there. If I am wrong, it can't make me look much worse than I've already made myself look! :-/

Very good possibility, now that you've mentioned it. Speaking of egg-in-the-face, I still tend to forget that distro maintainers can do that with open source software.

Back on Topic:

Jeremy, I wonder how others feel about the 'disable' feature being global. Personally, I think that once a post is made with 'show icon' enabled, the distro icon should stick. It makes us look a little more sane if it doesn't magically disappear later, especially if it's been referenced in another post.

Just a thought.

dragonslayer48dx, the information is currently not kept in a way that would allow that type of functionality.

--jeremy

Ahem... More eggs, please!

I knew that other items were also global (profile info, sigs, etc.), I just didn't realize that it couldn't be changed for a particular feature. Ah well, I suppose we can live with it the way it is.

Cheers

keep it and dont let users turn it off.
it could be useful for the topic and it also is fun in games.

Thankfully, you're the only one who has voted to disallow disabling the feature.

Exactly what games do you plan to play on LQ?

Well, there's "Who Has The Oldest Unmaintained Distro", aka "What does THAT icon mean." I have access to SCO UNIX, so I win. :-) (...the contempt and hatred of everyone else on the board. Groklaw has a lot to answer for. :-( )

And of course there's Penguin Pokemon.

Seriously, if all posts including historic ones are only tagged with what system I'm driving today, it could be confusing. On the other hand, I want to see Android.

Wow what an autocratic idea!

If you'd read the rest of the thread (including that of the OP who shall remain nameless) you'd know that many of us specifically do NOT want this displayed and that it is NOT useful if you're posting here from a Windows workstation when asking about Linux. I for one don't intend to fire up a browser on one of my Linux servers just so people will see that is the one I'm asking about. Even if I did it from my CentOS workstation that wouldn't be entirely useful as most of my questions are about RHEL.

LOL

True, but that's not the case. While the allow/disable feature is global, the icons are post-specific, so you can see with which system each post is made.

Cheers

Groklaw has a lot to answer for??? If you mean that in a negative way, I don't see it. I am very thankful for the tremendous service (IMHO) Groklaw has provided. Groklaw was not responsible for the shenanigans (to put it very mildly/politely) that McBride & company pulled. Groklaw merely documented the whole sorry affair. And thank heavens PJ is deliberately keeping an historical record.

BTW, if Darl McBride had gotten away with what he tried to do, I think that would have been the death of Linux (rather than the gold mine McBride imagined). While IANAL, I don't see how anybody -- including SCO/Calera -- would be able to continue to legally distribute it under its current license.

I think that's probably true, and did I hear that Microsoft directly or indirectly was backing up SCO with cash? An investment (which I think they actually got back) that generated years of fear of liability for using Linux amongst business customers, the kind of thing that ordinarily folks say money can't buy. Well, folks don't have imagination.

I only meant that SCO, which I only "have access to" and rarely use, but used to quit[ like, is something I have to blush and not brag about using amongst Linux users - thanks to Groklaw. (Partly.) On the other hand, if SCO had won, maybe there wouldn't be any Linux users...