view libpurple/plugins/startup.py @ 27168:463ed40d4031

Deal with buddies on MSN more gracefully. Look ahead to see if we have information about the protocol of the buddy, because by the time we process the protocol, we may have done too many other things, e.g. update status, set idleness etc., which means the real buddy doesn't get updated properly.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Makes sure only one purple instance is running
#
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import sys
import dbus
import os

if len(sys.argv) == 1:
	print "Usage:", sys.argv[0], """<purple-client> [arguments]

Example:
	""", sys.argv[0], "pidgin -d -c /my/home"
	sys.exit(1)

home = os.path.expanduser('~/.purple/')
for arg in range(1, len(sys.argv[1:])):
	if sys.argv[arg] == "-c":
		home = os.path.expanduser(sys.argv[arg + 1])
		break

bus = dbus.SessionBus()

try:
	obj = bus.get_object("im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService", "/im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject")
	purple = dbus.Interface(obj, "im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface")
	userdir = purple.PurpleUserDir()
	if not os.path.isabs(userdir):
		userdir = os.path.join(purple.PurpleHomeDir(), userdir)
	if home == userdir:
		print "Already running."
		purple.PurpleBlistShow()
	else:
		print "Starting client from a different home directory."
		raise
except:
	os.execlp(sys.argv[1], " ".join(sys.argv[2:]))