Linux international desktop location

[martinohanlon]

call xdg-user-dir if possible to return the desktop location

    def _get_desktop_folder(self):
        import subprocess
        try:
            return subprocess.check_output(['xdg-user-dir',
                                            'DESKTOP']).decode('utf-8').strip()
        except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
            return os.path.join(os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~')), 'Desktop')

Based on requests in #7 from @kiwi0fruit

[martinohanlon]

See https://github.com/jleclanche/python-xdg/blob/master/xdg/basedir.py for a potential solution for getting xdg environment data without having to use subprocess.

[kiwi0fruit]

@martinohanlon I guess this doesn't affect fallback behavior: if xdg-user-dir is installed then env vars are set and vice versa (if we are ever to encouter fallback behaviour). So this gives the same result.

[martinohanlon]

This code pulls back the xdg desktop directory

import os
os.environ.get("XDG_DESKTOP_DIR", os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), "Desktop"))

Tested on ubuntu, raspbian, nix.

Interestingly this works on nix, but the xdg-user-dir isnt installed.

[kiwi0fruit]

@martinohanlon echo ${XDG_DESKTOP_DIR} gives me empty string in bash on Ubuntu.

[kiwi0fruit]

@martinohanlon I guess your code always uses default value so it works on nix.