Re: Gettext; findLinuxBrowser

[Martin Sevior <msevior physics unimelb edu au>]

On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 01:15 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was looking into Divifund in hopes that it could provide me with an example 
> how to install gettext catalogs in a correct manner with Python, and have it 
> work under all platforms.
> 
> My question is, it seems that Divifund sets up its own catalog directory under 
> the current working directory. Why not use the return value of 
> gettext.bindtextdomain()?
> 
> Also, I have a suggestion for the utilTools.findLinuxBrowser() method. Instead 
> of just checking for executables (which already goes wrong with firefox, 
> because the executable is called mozilla-firefox under Mandriva for trademark 
> reasons), you could first do:
> 
> gconf.client_get_default().get_string("/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command").split()[0]
> 
> In short, this will retrieve the preferred browser under GNOME. The split()[0] 
> is necessary to throw away any arguments for the executable name which may be 
> present.
> 

Thanks for the hint Reinout. I was hoping to not depend on that usage of
gconf. I'll include "mozilla-firefox" in the search list.

Cheers

Martin

> regards,
>