On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 16:20 +0200, Pasquale Boemio wrote: > If your sistem is well configurated there is a file in your home > directory that set some variables. > Here is mine: > p...@littlemonkey ~ $ cat .config/user-dirs.dirs > XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" > XDG_MUSIC_DIR="/media/PausExt/Musica" > XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads" > XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Dropbox" > XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures" > > you can use this, but look that some users maybe don't have it!
It might be better to use the pyxdg module[1] rather than attempting to read that file directly, that way it can fall back on the system-wide defaults if a user doesn't have anything configured (or the freedesktop.org defaults if nothing is specified at the system level). Cheers, Mike. [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [email protected] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
