webbrowser.py

[Jeremy Sanders]

It occurs to me that webbrowser could be more intelligent on Linux/Unix
systems. Both Gnome and KDE have default web browsers, so one could use
their settings to choose the appropriate browser.

I haven't been able to find a freedesktop common standard for web browser,
however.

Firefox now sets itself as a "default browser" on startup, so python could
also look for a similar setting.

webbrowser could identify whether it was running under KDE/Gnome (maybe
scan the processes?), identify the correct desktop's browser (or just use
Gnome, maybe), and start that web browser.

Comments?

Jeremy

 

[Timothy Babytch]

It occurs to me that webbrowser could be more intelligent on Linux/Unix
systems. Both Gnome and KDE have default web browsers, so one could use
their settings to choose the appropriate browser.

I haven't been able to find a freedesktop common standard for web browser,
however.

webbrowser could identify whether it was running under KDE/Gnome (maybe
scan the processes?), identify the correct desktop's browser (or just use
Gnome, maybe), and start that web browser.

I would not mind just using default GNOME's browser

to determine the one you will need python-gconf2 module and look for
gconf entry /desktop/gnome/applications/browser

The only bug here is that user MUST have python-gconf2 installed. Many
GNOMErs do not have it. but hey - one more dependancy.. Who cares? If
they istalled pyGTK - why it is wrong to ask for python-gconf2?