It occurs to me that webbrowser could be more intelligent on Linux/Unix systems. Both Gnome and KDE have default web browsers, so one could use their settings to choose the appropriate browser.
I haven't been able to find a freedesktop common standard for web browser, however.
webbrowser could identify whether it was running under KDE/Gnome (maybe scan the processes?), identify the correct desktop's browser (or just use Gnome, maybe), and start that web browser.
I would not mind just using default GNOME's browser :)
to determine the one you will need python-gconf2 module and look for gconf entry /desktop/gnome/applications/browser
The only bug here is that user MUST have python-gconf2 installed. Many GNOMErs do not have it. but hey - one more dependancy.. Who cares? If they istalled pyGTK :) - why it is wrong to ask for python-gconf2?
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