/b-gtk/fix-viz

# Copyright (C) 2006 by Szilveszter Farkas (Phanatic) <szilveszter.farkas@gmail.com>

#

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

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#

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import sys

import os

def launch(path):

    """ Launch program associated with path """

    # Normalize filepath

    normpath = os.path.normpath(path) 

    if sys.platform == 'win32':

        # Windows is easy

        os.startfile(normpath)

    else:

        # Maybe Gnome?

        exe = search_exe('gnome-open')

        if exe != None:

            os.system("gnome-open %s" % normpath)

            return

        # Maybe KDE?

        exe = search_exe('kfmclient')

        if exe != None:

            os.system("kfmclient exec file:%s" % normpath)

            return

        # TODO: support other platforms

        print "DEBUG: file launch not supported on this platform."

def search_exe(exe):

    """ Search for given executable. """

    found = 0

    paths = os.environ['PATH'].split(os.pathsep)

    for path in paths:

        if os.path.exists(os.path.join(path,exe)):

            found = 1

            break

    if found:

        return True

    return None