Detecting OS and Window Manager

[Darren Winsper]

In <3d00bfb5$1_2 at hpb10302.boi.hp.com>, Daniel Fackrell wrote:

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this exactly the pythonic way of handling
> dynamic loading of modules?
> 
> try:
>     import kdecore
> except ImportError:
>     # do something else

OK, fair enough.  I did only read and write my first line of Python a
few days ago :)

> Of course, this will probably not do what you want in this case, as kdecore
> will probably load if it is installed, without regard to whether the current
> user is running KDE.  I don't have much experience with this particular
> topic yet.

Well, I could attempt to see if something like "kdesktop" is running,
since if it is, the chances of running KDE are very high.  It's kludgy,
but I can't really think of anything else, since KDEINIT would be running
if a single kde application is running IIRC.

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