https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396679
--- Comment #4 from Kusi <k...@forum.titlis.org> --- I investigated a bit the problem of launching a terminal cross platform The following code snippet allows to handle the case of KDE, but it should be easy to extend it for various desktop environments. I just guessed the values for GNOME, I didn't test for GNOME QByteArray env = qgetenv("XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP"); QString desktopEnvironment = QString::fromLocal8Bit(env.data()); QMap<QString, QString> terminals; terminals["KDE"] = "konsole"; terminals["GNOME"] = "gnome-shell"; terminals["WINDOWS"] = "cmd.exe"; if (terminals.contains(desktopEnvironment)) { QProcess *process = new QProcess(this); QString terminal = terminals[desktopEnvironment]; QString folder = "/share/pictures"; process->setWorkingDirectory(folder); process->start(terminal); } While getting the current platform (linux/win/osx) seems straight forward with either QSysInfo or https://wiki.qt.io/Get_OS_name, it is tricky to get the desktop environment, but it is still feasible w/o too much hassle: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47022134/how-can-i-find-out-at-runtime-which-desktop-environment-that-a-qt-application Remember, if the terminal is not available, the option is just disabled. It doesn't have to exist for every exotic desktop environment what do you think? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.