Initial support for user extensions (bug 435)
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1 #!/usr/bin/env python
2 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
5 # gPodder - A media aggregator and podcast client
6 # Copyright (c) 2005-2010 Thomas Perl and the gPodder Team
8 # gPodder is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
9 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
10 # the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
11 # (at your option) any later version.
13 # gPodder is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
14 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
15 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
16 # GNU General Public License for more details.
18 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
19 # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
22 """
23 gPodder enables you to subscribe to RSS feeds and download
24 podcast episodes from these feeds.
26 Downloaded podcasts can either be synchronized to portable
27 MP3 players (including iPods) or played back on the user's
28 desktop.
30 See gpo(1) for the command-line interface.
31 """
33 import sys
34 import os
35 import os.path
36 import platform
38 import gettext
40 import subprocess
42 try:
43 import dbus
44 import dbus.glib
45 have_dbus = True
46 except ImportError:
47 print >>sys.stderr, """
48 Warning: python-dbus not found. Disabling D-Bus support.
49 """
50 have_dbus = False
52 from optparse import OptionParser
54 if __name__ == '__main__':
55 # Paths to important files
56 gpodder_script = sys.argv[0]
57 while os.path.islink(gpodder_script):
58 gpodder_script = os.readlink(gpodder_script)
59 gpodder_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(gpodder_script), '..')
60 prefix = os.path.abspath(os.path.normpath(gpodder_dir))
62 src_dir = os.path.join(prefix, 'src')
63 data_dir = os.path.join(prefix, 'data')
64 locale_dir = os.path.join(prefix, 'share', 'locale')
65 ui_folder = os.path.join(prefix, 'share', 'gpodder', 'ui')
66 credits_file = os.path.join(prefix, 'share', 'gpodder', 'credits.txt')
67 images_folder = os.path.join(prefix, 'share', 'gpodder')
68 icon_file = os.path.join(prefix, 'share', 'icons', 'hicolor', 'scalable', 'apps', 'gpodder.svg')
70 # The existence of this file tells us we're running on Maemo
71 maemo_file = os.path.join(prefix, 'share', 'applications', 'hildon', 'gpodder.desktop')
73 if os.path.exists(src_dir) and os.path.exists(data_dir) and \
74 not prefix.startswith('/usr'):
75 # Run gPodder from local source folder (not installed)
76 print >>sys.stderr, 'Using modules from', src_dir
77 sys.path.insert(0, src_dir)
78 print >>sys.stderr, 'Using resources from', data_dir
79 locale_dir = os.path.join(data_dir, 'locale')
80 ui_folder = os.path.join(data_dir, 'ui')
81 credits_file = os.path.join(data_dir, 'credits.txt')
82 images_folder = os.path.join(data_dir, 'images')
83 icon_file = os.path.join(data_dir, 'gpodder.svg')
85 # on Mac OS X, read from the defaults database the locale of the user
86 if platform.system() == 'Darwin' and 'LANG' not in os.environ:
87 locale_cmd = ('defaults', 'read', 'NSGlobalDomain', 'AppleLocale')
88 process = subprocess.Popen(locale_cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
89 output, error_output = process.communicate()
90 # the output is a string like 'fr_FR', and we need 'fr_FR.utf-8'
91 user_locale = output.strip() + '.UTF-8'
92 os.environ['LANG'] = user_locale
93 print >>sys.stderr, 'Setting locale to', user_locale
95 # Set up the path to translation files
96 gettext.bindtextdomain('gpodder', locale_dir)
98 import gpodder
100 # Enable i18n for gPodder translations
101 _ = gpodder.gettext
103 # Set up paths to folder with GtkBuilder files and gpodder.svg
104 gpodder.ui_folders.append(ui_folder)
105 gpodder.credits_file = credits_file
106 gpodder.images_folder = images_folder
107 gpodder.icon_file = icon_file
109 s_usage = 'usage: %%prog [options]\n\n%s' % ( __doc__.strip() )
110 s_version = '%%prog %s' % ( gpodder.__version__ )
112 parser = OptionParser( usage = s_usage, version = s_version)
114 parser.add_option("-v", "--verbose",
115 action="store_true", dest="verbose", default=False,
116 help=_("Print debugging output to stdout"))
118 parser.add_option("-m", "--maemo",
119 action="store_true", dest="diablo", default=False,
120 help=_("Start the Maemo 4 user interface"))
122 parser.add_option("-f", "--fremantle",
123 action="store_true", dest="fremantle", default=False,
124 help=_("Start the Maemo 5 user interface"))
126 parser.add_option('-s', '--subscribe', dest='subscribe', metavar='URL',
127 help=_('Subscribe to the given URL'))
129 # On Mac OS X, support the "psn" parameter for compatibility (bug 939)
130 if sys.platform == 'darwin':
131 parser.add_option('-p', '--psn', dest='macpsn', metavar='PSN',
132 help=_('Mac OS X application process number'))
134 (options, args) = parser.parse_args(sys.argv)
136 # Detect if we are running on Maemo 5 and if it's the case, do
137 # force the "fremantle" option on automatically, so that clueless
138 # users won't be reporting bogus bugs if they try to start gPodder
139 # from the command line without the "--fremantle" switch :)
140 if not options.fremantle and not options.diablo:
141 try:
142 if 'Maemo 5' in open('/etc/issue').read():
143 options.fremantle = True
144 print >>sys.stderr, 'Auto-detected: Maemo 5 (--fremantle)'
145 except:
146 pass
148 if options.fremantle or options.diablo:
149 gpodder.icon_file = gpodder.icon_file.replace('.svg', '.png')
151 if options.fremantle:
152 gpodder.ui.fremantle = True
153 gpodder.ui_folders.insert(0, os.path.join(ui_folder, 'frmntl'))
154 elif options.diablo or os.path.exists(maemo_file):
155 gpodder.ui.diablo = True
156 gpodder.ui_folders.insert(0, os.path.join(ui_folder, 'maemo'))
157 else:
158 gpodder.ui.desktop = True
159 gpodder.ui_folders.insert(0, os.path.join(ui_folder, 'desktop'))
161 if options.verbose:
162 from gpodder.liblogger import enable_verbose
163 enable_verbose()
165 if have_dbus:
166 # Try to find an already-running instance of gPodder
167 session_bus = dbus.SessionBus()
169 # Obtain a reference to an existing instance; don't call get_object if
170 # such an instance doesn't exist as it *will* create a new instance
171 if session_bus.name_has_owner(gpodder.dbus_bus_name):
172 try:
173 remote_object = session_bus.get_object(gpodder.dbus_bus_name, \
174 gpodder.dbus_gui_object_path)
175 except dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
176 remote_object = None
177 else:
178 remote_object = None
179 else:
180 # No D-Bus available :/
181 remote_object = None
183 if remote_object is not None:
184 # An instance of GUI is already running
185 print >>sys.stderr, 'Existing instance running - activating via D-Bus.'
186 remote_object.show_gui_window(dbus_interface=gpodder.dbus_interface)
187 if options.subscribe:
188 remote_object.subscribe_to_url(options.subscribe)
189 else:
190 # gPodder is not yet running - create new instance
191 from gpodder import gui
193 # check if we have an X11 connection (but not on Windows)
194 if platform.system() != 'Windows' and \
195 not os.environ.get('DISPLAY', None):
196 print >>sys.stderr, 'Cannot start gPodder: $DISPLAY is not set.'
197 sys.exit(1)
199 if gpodder.ui.maemo:
200 # Reduce our nice value to zero if we're on Maemo to
201 # make the tablet not kill itself while updating feeds
202 if os.nice(0) < 0:
203 os.nice(-os.nice(0))
205 gui.main(options)