On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Timo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your explanation. Apparently it's not possible to detect it > in all cases, but it would be nice to detect it for regular users, so > people who have a default install. > > Well, my program needs a text-editor and a graphical box for > root-password. So it checks for the desktop environment so it could set > these things to gedit and gksudo for Gnome and kate and kdesu for KDE. > > Timo
I would probably just ask the user which one they're running. It's probably the easiest way. -Wayne _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor