| 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@20 | 6 | the module docstring for a more extensive introduction. See also the following
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| paulb@20 | 7 | patch registered in the Python SourceForge project:
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| paulb@20 | 8 |
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| paulb@20 | 9 | http://www.python.org/sf?id=1301512
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| paulb@11 | 10 |
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| paulb@33 | 11 | Some ideas for desktop detection (XFCE) and URL opening (XFCE, X11) were
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| paulb@33 | 12 | obtained from the xdg-utils project which seeks to implement programs
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| paulb@33 | 13 | performing similar functions to those found in the desktop module. The
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| paulb@33 | 14 | xdg-utils project can be found here:
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| paulb@33 | 15 |
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| paulb@33 | 16 | http://portland.freedesktop.org/
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| paulb@33 | 17 |
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| paulb@33 | 18 | Other information regarding desktop icons and menus, screensavers and MIME
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| paulb@33 | 19 | configuration can also be found in xdg-utils.
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| paulb@33 | 20 |
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| paulb@11 | 21 | Contact, Copyright and Licence Information
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| paulb@11 | 22 | ------------------------------------------
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| paulb@11 | 23 |
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| paulb@11 | 24 | No Web page has yet been made available for this work, but the author can be
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| paulb@11 | 25 | contacted at the following e-mail address:
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| paulb@11 | 26 |
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| paulb@11 | 27 | paul@boddie.org.uk
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| paulb@11 | 28 |
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| paulb@11 | 29 | Copyright and licence information can be found in the docs directory - see
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| paulb@11 | 30 | docs/COPYING.txt and docs/LICENCE.txt for more information. Whilst I would
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| paulb@11 | 31 | prefer to release my software under the LGPL or GPL, the Python Software
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| paulb@11 | 32 | Foundation insists on other licences, and I have chosen one of those in the
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| paulb@11 | 33 | hope that this module becomes a part of the Python standard library.
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| paulb@11 | 34 |
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| paulb@11 | 35 | Notes
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| paulb@11 | 36 | -----
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| paulb@11 | 37 |
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| paulb@4 | 38 | Notes on desktop application/environment support:
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| paulb@4 | 39 |
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| paulb@4 | 40 | KDE Supports file and URL opening using kfmclient, where the openURL
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| paulb@4 | 41 | command opens the resource and the exec command runs the
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| paulb@4 | 42 | resource.
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| paulb@4 | 43 |
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| paulb@4 | 44 | GNOME Supports file and URL opening using gnome-open.
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| paulb@4 | 45 |
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| paulb@33 | 46 | XFCE Supports file and URL opening using exo-open.
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| paulb@33 | 47 |
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| paulb@4 | 48 | ROX-Filer Supports file opening using "rox <filename>" but not URL
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| paulb@4 | 49 | opening.
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| paulb@17 | 50 |
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| paulb@54 | 51 | New in desktop 0.3 (Changes since desktop 0.2.4)
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| paulb@54 | 52 | ------------------------------------------------
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| paulb@54 | 53 |
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| paulb@54 | 54 | * Made desktop a package.
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| paulb@54 | 55 | * Added support for graphical dialogue boxes through programs such as
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| paulb@54 | 56 | kdialog, zenity and Xdialog.
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| paulb@54 | 57 | * Added support for inspecting desktop windows (currently only for X11).
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| paulb@54 | 58 |
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| paulb@33 | 59 | New in desktop 0.2.4 (Changes since desktop 0.2.3)
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| paulb@33 | 60 | --------------------------------------------------
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| paulb@33 | 61 |
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| paulb@40 | 62 | * Added XFCE support (with advice from Miki Tebeka).
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| paulb@36 | 63 | * Added Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) package support.
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| paulb@33 | 64 |
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| paulb@27 | 65 | New in desktop 0.2.3 (Changes since desktop 0.2.2)
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| paulb@27 | 66 | --------------------------------------------------
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| paulb@27 | 67 |
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| paulb@27 | 68 | * Added Python 2.3 support (using popen2 instead of subprocess).
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| paulb@27 | 69 |
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| paulb@24 | 70 | New in desktop 0.2.2 (Changes since desktop 0.2.1)
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| paulb@24 | 71 | --------------------------------------------------
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| paulb@24 | 72 |
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| paulb@24 | 73 | * Changed the licence to LGPL.
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| paulb@24 | 74 |
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| paulb@20 | 75 | New in desktop 0.2.1 (Changes since desktop 0.2)
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| paulb@20 | 76 | ------------------------------------------------
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| paulb@20 | 77 |
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| paulb@20 | 78 | * Added Debian/Ubuntu package support.
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| paulb@20 | 79 |
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| paulb@17 | 80 | New in desktop 0.2 (Changes since desktop 0.1)
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| paulb@17 | 81 | ----------------------------------------------
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| paulb@17 | 82 |
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| paulb@18 | 83 | * Added support for waiting for launcher processes.
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| paulb@17 | 84 | * Added a tests directory.
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| paulb@20 | 85 |
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| paulb@20 | 86 | Release Procedures
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| paulb@20 | 87 | ------------------
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| paulb@20 | 88 |
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| paulb@20 | 89 | Update the desktop __version__ attribute.
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| paulb@20 | 90 | Change the version number and package filename/directory in the documentation.
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| paulb@20 | 91 | Update the release notes (see above).
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| paulb@20 | 92 | Update the package information.
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| paulb@20 | 93 | Check the release information in the PKG-INFO file.
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| paulb@20 | 94 | Check the setup.py file.
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| paulb@20 | 95 | Tag, export.
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| paulb@20 | 96 | Archive, upload.
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| paulb@20 | 97 | Update PyPI, PythonInfo Wiki, Vaults of Parnassus entries.
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| paulb@20 | 98 |
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| paulb@20 | 99 | Making Packages
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| paulb@20 | 100 | ---------------
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| paulb@20 | 101 |
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| paulb@20 | 102 | To make Debian-based packages:
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| paulb@20 | 103 |
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| paulb@20 | 104 | 1. Create new package directories under packages if necessary.
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| paulb@20 | 105 | 2. Make a symbolic link in the distribution's root directory to keep the
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| paulb@20 | 106 | Debian tools happy:
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| paulb@20 | 107 |
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| paulb@20 | 108 | ln -s packages/ubuntu-hoary/python2.4-desktop/debian/
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| paulb@20 | 109 |
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| paulb@20 | 110 | 3. Run the package builder:
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| paulb@20 | 111 |
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| paulb@20 | 112 | dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
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| paulb@20 | 113 |
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| paulb@20 | 114 | 4. Locate and tidy up the packages in the parent directory of the
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| paulb@20 | 115 | distribution's root directory.
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