Index: Lib/webbrowser.py
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--- Lib/webbrowser.py	(revision 60977)
+++ Lib/webbrowser.py	(working copy)
@@ -444,19 +444,16 @@
 # a console terminal or an X display to run.
 
 def register_X_browsers():
-    # The default Gnome browser
-    if _iscommand("gconftool-2"):
-        # get the web browser string from gconftool
-        gc = 'gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command 2>/dev/null'
-        out = os.popen(gc)
-        commd = out.read().strip()
-        retncode = out.close()
 
-        # if successful, register it
-        if retncode is None and commd:
-            register("gnome", None, BackgroundBrowser(shlex.split(commd)))
+    # The default GNOME browser
+    if "GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID" in os.environ and _iscommand("gnome-open"):
+        register("gnome-open", None, BackgroundBrowser("gnome-open"))
 
-    # First, the Mozilla/Netscape browsers
+    # The default KDE browser
+    if "KDE_FULL_SESSION" in os.environ and _iscommand("kfmclient"):
+        register("kfmclient", Konqueror, Konqueror("kfmclient"))
+
+    # The Mozilla/Netscape browsers
     for browser in ("mozilla-firefox", "firefox",
                     "mozilla-firebird", "firebird",
                     "seamonkey", "mozilla", "netscape"):