paulb@11 | 1 | Introduction
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paulb@11 | 2 | ------------
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paulb@11 | 3 |
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paulb@11 | 4 | The desktop module provides desktop environment detection and resource opening
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paulb@11 | 5 | support for a selection of common and standardised desktop environments. See
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paulb@11 | 6 | the module docstring for a more extensive introduction.
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paulb@11 | 7 |
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paulb@11 | 8 | Contact, Copyright and Licence Information
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paulb@11 | 9 | ------------------------------------------
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paulb@11 | 10 |
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paulb@11 | 11 | No Web page has yet been made available for this work, but the author can be
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paulb@11 | 12 | contacted at the following e-mail address:
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paulb@11 | 13 |
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paulb@11 | 14 | paul@boddie.org.uk
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paulb@11 | 15 |
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paulb@11 | 16 | Copyright and licence information can be found in the docs directory - see
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paulb@11 | 17 | docs/COPYING.txt and docs/LICENCE.txt for more information. Whilst I would
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paulb@11 | 18 | prefer to release my software under the LGPL or GPL, the Python Software
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paulb@11 | 19 | Foundation insists on other licences, and I have chosen one of those in the
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paulb@11 | 20 | hope that this module becomes a part of the Python standard library.
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paulb@11 | 21 |
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paulb@11 | 22 | Notes
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paulb@11 | 23 | -----
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paulb@11 | 24 |
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paulb@4 | 25 | Notes on desktop application/environment support:
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paulb@4 | 26 |
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paulb@4 | 27 | KDE Supports file and URL opening using kfmclient, where the openURL
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paulb@4 | 28 | command opens the resource and the exec command runs the
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paulb@4 | 29 | resource.
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paulb@4 | 30 |
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paulb@4 | 31 | GNOME Supports file and URL opening using gnome-open.
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paulb@4 | 32 |
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paulb@4 | 33 | ROX-Filer Supports file opening using "rox <filename>" but not URL
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paulb@4 | 34 | opening.
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paulb@17 | 35 |
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paulb@17 | 36 | New in desktop 0.2 (Changes since desktop 0.1)
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paulb@17 | 37 | ----------------------------------------------
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paulb@17 | 38 |
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paulb@18 | 39 | * Added support for waiting for launcher processes.
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paulb@17 | 40 | * Added a tests directory.
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