Bug#268659: konqueror: User-Agent string should be Debian-branded by default
Package: konqueror
Version: 4:3.3.0-1
Severity: minor
Konqueror should have a branded UA, just like Mozilla and Galeon
(and hopefully many other) do.
Example user agents:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Debian/1.7.2-4
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Galeon/1.3.17 (Debian package 1.3.17-1)
Please talk to the mozilla folks which type of branding is preferred.
http://www.mozilla.org/build/revised-user-agent-strings.html
I don't think the branding as used by Mozilla Browser is optimal.
I think the debian branding of Galeon is done better.
(Some parsers might interpret the mozilla-browser branding as
"mozilla-based browser named Debian")
I'm not sure if current Konquerors User-Agent is actually
standards-conformant:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko)
IMHO this should be
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; U; Linux i686; en-US) KHTML/3.3 Konqueror/3.3 (Debian package 3.3.0-1)
The "KHTML" part could be shared between Safari and Konqueror to reflect
the rendering engine, like "Gecko" does for mozilla, galeon, epiphany
and firefox.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1+sws+acpi
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
Versions of packages konqueror depends on:
ii kcontrol 4:3.3.0-1 KDE Control Center
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.3.0-1 KDE I/O Slaves
ii kdelibs4 4:3.3.0-1.1 KDE core libraries
ii kdesktop 4:3.3.0-1 KDE Desktop
ii kfind 4:3.3.0-1 KDE File Find Utility
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-7 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.5.2-3 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkonq4 4:3.3.0-1 Core libraries for KDE's file mana
ii libpcre3 4.5-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-7 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-4 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-7 compression library - runtime
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