Terminator should not hard-depend on python-gnome

gnome is only used for opening urls, which ought to be possible another way, so we should look for ways to degrade gracefully on this.

at worst we could just look for debian's preferred browser, then firefox, konqueror and opera.
It would be better to look at what libgnome is doing and emulate that behaviour (at which point we could drop the gnome-python dependency entirely)

Isn't webbrowser module good enough? It's cross platform (will open the default desktop, no matter if it's Linux, Mac OS, Windows...). Also it won't add a new dependency as it's in the python core modules.

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

Hi

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Isn't webbrowser module good enough? It's cross platform (will open the

yes that looks perfect :)

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This is actually much more tricky than I expected.
If we use webbrowser we are no longer able to open email addresses in the user's email program, or any other protocol in their specified handler. Everything will just open in a Web Browser.
I think a better option is to try and use gnome, but if it's not available, fallback on webbrowser.

Actually this was much easier than I expected. We now gracefully fall back on python's webbrowser module where the gnome module is not present. Users without the gnome module will be required to have their browser handle all URIs.