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@@ -29,11 +29,8 @@
checkouts smaller and making sure changes to one set of resources updates
the other.
- The binary that the build system produces is called "nsgtk". There is also
- a shell script called "netsurf" that will set up the environment and launch
- the nsgtk binary. Do not ship this shell script with your package. It is
- included only as a convience for launching NetSurf from the build tree.
- Instead, you should move nsgtk to /usr/bin/netsurf (or wherever your
+ The binary that the build system produces is called "nsgtk3".
+ You should install nsgtk3 to `/usr/bin/netsurf` (or wherever your
distribution's packaging policy suggests) and copy the contents of
gtk/res/ (dereferencing the symlinks, obviously) to /usr/share/netsurf (or
wherever your packaging policy suggests).
@@ -67,18 +64,19 @@
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You may also want to change NetSurf's user agent string to include the
- name of your distribution. The user agent string is build by a function
+ name of your distribution. The user agent string is built by a function
kept in utils/useragent.c - you'll want to change the macro called
NETSURF_UA_FORMAT_STRING. It's processed via sprintf, so keep that in
- mind when changing it. The first two printf parameters are major and minor
- version numbers, the second two are OS name (uname -s) and architecture
- (uname -m). You might want change this to something like:
+ mind when changing it. The first format parameter is the OS name (uname -s)
+ and the remainder are major and minor version numbers. You might want
+ to change this to something like:
- "NetSurf/%d.%d (%s; %s; Debian GNU/Linux)"
+ "Mozilla/5.0 (%s; Debian GNU/Linux) NetSurf/%d.%d"
- or similar. Please don't be tempted to mention Mozilla or similar - let's
- let that lie die.
+ or similar.
+ Note that the "Mozilla/5.0" prefix is a requirement to enable modern
+ web standards on many websites. It should not be removed or modified.
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