fix #2 and #3 distro name

   python 3.8 removed platform.platform() in favor of
   distro.linux_distribution(). This change uses the new format.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/usr/bin/logout-manager-trayicon b/src/usr/bin/logout-manager-trayicon
index b6471f9..012e2bd 100755
--- a/src/usr/bin/logout-manager-trayicon
+++ b/src/usr/bin/logout-manager-trayicon
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 # File: logout-manager-trayicon
 # License: CC-BY-SA 4.0
 # Author: bgstack15
+# Startdate: 2020-03-20
+# Title: Logout Manager tray icon
+# Purpose: An easy menu from the system tray in a panel for a window manager or desktop environment
+# History:
+#    2020-04-01 update for python 3.8
 # Reference:
 #    icon work https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45162862/how-do-i-set-an-icon-for-the-whole-application-using-pygobject
 #    button right click must be from "button-press-event" and import Gdk https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/menus.html
@@ -15,10 +20,11 @@
 #    send signals https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15080500/how-can-i-send-a-signal-from-a-python-program
 #    https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/signal.html#module-signal
 # Dependencies:
-#    dep-pip: psutil
-#    dep-devuan: python3-psutil
+#    dep-pip: psutil distro
+#    dep-devuan: python3-psutil python3-distro
 
-import gi, os, platform, re, sys, psutil, signal
+import gi, os, re, sys, psutil, signal
+from distro import linux_distribution
 gi.require_version("Gtk","3.0")
 from gi.repository import Gtk
 from gi.repository import Gdk
@@ -27,7 +33,7 @@ from dotenv import load_dotenv
 # all this to load the libpath
 try:
    defaultdir="/etc/sysconfig"
-   thisplatform = platform.platform().lower()
+   thisplatform = linux_distribution()[0].lower()
    if 'debian' in thisplatform or 'devuan' in thisplatform:
       defaultdir="/etc/default"
    # load_dotenv keeps existing environment variables as higher precedent