Boy, I wish I had time to do that :) Well, users won't have to use this particular feature of my app if they don't want to. But it is there if they want to make use of it.
The program is called Emu Browser for Linux. http://dos-man.webs.com/linux.htm This is a hyperlink launcher for launching other applications. It works using input files that the user creates. I have the windows version set up so that it displays all disk drives (regardless of whether there is a disk in the drive or not) when no input file is loaded. The user can click on a drive (unless the password-restriction feature is activated) and then the drive will be opened using windows explorer (unless there is no disk in the drive.) I want the linux version of this to have the same functionality. The file manager used isn't so important so much as the user not looking at an empty, white window every time the program starts up. It's kind of a convenient little behavior that isn't all that hard for me to add. Well, on the windows version it wasn't ;) On Mar 23, 2:05 pm, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > Regardless of how many file managers that you installed the default will > always be the same for that desktop environment. When I am in GNOME it is > always Nautilus and when I am in KDE it is always Dolphin, unless you have > changed it in the settings. You can't do that incidentally just by > installing different desktop environments. > > To find out the default file manager then he would only need to know what > desktop environment each distro uses. > > GNOME = Nautilus > KDE 3.5 = Konqueror > KDE 4.x = Dolphin > XFCE = Thunar > LXDE = PCMan > Fluxbox one needs one to be installed separately, xfm, Rox-filer or Thunar > all work well > Enlightenment can have different file managers depending on the distro, > often it is Nautilus --no-desktop > > I would suggest going to distrowatch.org and looking up the distro and > looking at what packages come with it. > > Roy > > On 23 March 2010 12:12, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:57 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 22 March 2010 23:56, Dos-Man 64 <[1][email protected]> wrote: > > >> How to determine default file manager and obtain listing of all disk > > drives? > > > >> I need to do this in code. *On KNOPPIX, it seems to be Konqueror. > > >> OpenSuse seemed to be using Dolphin. *I'm actually not sure what > > >> DreamLinux uses. > > > > For launching the file manager, I would set up a queue - i.e. Try to > > > launch dolphin. Not there? try nautilus. Not there? try konqueror. If > > > you hit the end of your list, prompt the user for a file manager, and > > > store this in your list of things to try. > > > But that doesn't really tell you what the default file manager is. > > Dolphin, nautilus, and konqueror could all be on the same system and a > > different one could be the default for different users on that same > > system. > > > BTW, DreamLinux runs Xfce which uses the Thunar file manager. > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfce > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunar > > > Regards, > > - Robert > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > Group. > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > > For more options, visit our group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to linuxusersgroup+ > > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > > ME" as the subject.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup To unsubscribe from this group, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
