From c5952f7f992fff5f77f189768b0718d3372efbe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon McVittie Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 11:18:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-43137: Revert "webbrowser: Don't run gvfs-open on GNOME" gvfs-open was deprecated in 2015 and removed in 2018, but its replacement, gio(1), is not available in Ubuntu 16.04, which is apparently still supported by CPython upstream even though it is considered to be EOL by Ubuntu developers. Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie --- Lib/webbrowser.py | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Lib/webbrowser.py b/Lib/webbrowser.py index 02d2036906178f..44974d433b4696 100755 --- a/Lib/webbrowser.py +++ b/Lib/webbrowser.py @@ -467,6 +467,10 @@ def register_X_browsers(): if shutil.which("gio"): register("gio", None, BackgroundBrowser(["gio", "open", "--", "%s"])) + # Equivalent of gio open before 2015 + if "GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID" in os.environ and shutil.which("gvfs-open"): + register("gvfs-open", None, BackgroundBrowser("gvfs-open")) + # The default KDE browser if "KDE_FULL_SESSION" in os.environ and shutil.which("kfmclient"): register("kfmclient", Konqueror, Konqueror("kfmclient"))