[pygtk] getting desktop path

[Timo]

On 03-06-10 15:47, Gabriele Lanaro wrote:
> How to get, for example the desktop path of the current user? 
> (localization-aware)
> Would be nice to obtain for example also the default download-path.
> Is that possible?
I don't know a Python approach to do this. But most Linux systems have 
the xdg-utils installed though, so the following works:

$ xdg-user-dir DESKTOP
/home/timo/Bureaublad

Cheers,
Timo

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