Re: [Gramps-devel] remove import gnome

[Brian M. <br...@gr...>]

Benny,

> I'd like to remove the gnome dependence of GRAMPS as
> much as possible for
> 3.0.

I support this effort 100%.

> 2/opening of browser, this uses for GNOME
> gnome.url_show(target)
> I would remove that, and use for opening the
> sequence (line 66,
> Grampsdisplay.py):
> 
> for browser in ['xdg-open', 'firefox', 'konqueror',
> 'epiphany', 'galeon',
> 'mozilla']:
> 
> Normally, all recent linux distro's should contain
> the xdg-open
> freedesktop.org utility, which opens the preferred
> browser. Can somebody on
> Windows tell me how internet explorer could be found
> to open the manual by
> adding it to the above list? Eg ie7.exe ??

Could you just use the webbrowser module?

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-webbrowser.html

    import webbrowser
    webbrowser.open_new("www.gramps-project.org/bla")

> 4/plugin WriteCD.py
> Gnome module is used to write the CD. I see no way
> to offer this
> functionality to people who don't have gnome
> installed. As this is a plugin,
> this should not be a problem. The writeCD plugin
> will just not be available
> to those users.

Since it is a plugin, it is fine. The plugin status
will show it as uninstalled. Just make sure a valid
message appears.

Thanks for doing this!

~Brian