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 12:47
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Ok, here is the patch, including the fix for #1681248. The priorities on
all platforms with this patch are:
1. The BROWSER environment variable overrides everything
2. Next step is to check the preferred browsers for desktop environments
(Windows, Mac OS X, GNOME and KDE)
3. Fallback to available installed browsers (firefox, opera, konqueror,
epiphany, ...)
File Added: webbrowser-defaults.diff
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Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2007-03-15 09:50
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I agree with your suggestion. Can you make a patch (and include a fix for
the other bug you filed)?
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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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