[ python-Bugs-1681228 ] webbrowser priorities

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Bugs item #1681228, was opened at 2007-03-15 09:03
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Lukas Lalinsky (luks)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: webbrowser priorities

Initial Comment:
Recently I've run into a Windows-specific bug in webbrowser (using close_fds and preexec_fn in subprocess.Popen), and I noticed there are some strange priorities in the default browsers.

For example:
 * Why is firefox, firebird, seamonkey, mozilla, netscape and opera preferred over the *user's* preferred browser on Windows?
 * Why is the GNOME default browser preferred even if the user is currently running KDE (but has GNOME installed)?

>From all the platforms, only on Mac OS X it really respects the user's preferrencies.

I'd like to propose this:
 * On Windows, make "windows-default" the first in _try_order
 * If the user is running GNOME ("GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID" in os.environ) and command "gnome-open" exists, use `gnome-open '%s'`.
 * If the user is running KDE (os.environ.get("KDE_FULL_SESSION") == "true") and command "kfmclient" exists, use `kfmclient exec '%s'`.

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>Comment By: Lukas Lalinsky (luks)
Date: 2007-03-15 09:06

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Just a note, if you agree with this behavior, I'll be more than happy to
make a patch. Currently I'm using similar mechanism in my own code (because
Python's lib in 2.4 doesn't respect GNOME/KDE settings at all), so I can
easily turn it into a patch.

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