Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system

From	tomas@tuxteam.de
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system
Date	2017-03-18 10:30 +0100
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 08:09:31PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote:
> Thanks Dominik, Steve, and Tomas for your mail.
[...]

> That is, i think usually the best practice is to do capability
> detection (like the autoconf apparatus or jquery does) and then use
> whatever capabilities you detect.
> 
> I'm not sure this is always possible, though, because if it is
> something about the using the hardware in a certain way you may not be
> able to detect this (but rather rely on what you know about the
> environment).

Definitely, yes. But I see your point. Perhaps those two pointers might
help you a bit:

  https://metacpan.org/pod/Desktop::Detect
  https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Desktops/

(the second doesn't actually offer a method, but at least provides
you with a pretty extensive list of alternatives).

Regards
- -- tomás
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Thread

programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2017-03-17 06:20 +0100
  Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system Dominik George <nik@naturalnet.de> - 2017-03-17 06:50 +0100
  Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-17 09:10 +0100
    Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2017-03-18 04:20 +0100
      Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-03-18 10:30 +0100
  Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-03-18 17:00 +0100
    Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2017-03-19 19:20 +0100

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