On 09/01/2010 11:17 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
"Ranjith Kumar" <ranjitht...@gmail.com> wrote
I`m using ubuntu how to find and print the installed web browsers
using
python scripting.
How would you do it without Python scripting?
Is it even possible?
And on a multiuser system like Linux would you print out all the browsers
installed for the current user or for all users?
Alan, let me make a wild guess here.
Ubuntu does have little "Preferred applications" config tool. I don't
know how or where it stores this data, but my guess is it's the same
place xdg (as in xdg-open) gets it's configuration from. This article
might help http://www.crystalorb.net/mikem/xdg-settings.html
Quote from above article (near the end): "...especially as there is
(currently) no single, portable, authoritative way for applications to
query the values of these settings..."
Ranjith, get ready for some configuration file parsing.
But if you just want to open a url with the default browser, you can
just execute "xdg-open your-url" as a subprocess.
Hope I shifted you to the right direction.
Nick
PS-trivia: I got to guess these just because I've read the source from
"import antigravity"
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