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nice_quit.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
#
# This script tries to quit the app configured in app_to_quit in a nice way.
# First it checks if it is actually running.
# Then it tries to send it a quit apple event.
# If it doesn't respond (maybe because it is locked in a modal dialog)
# It will tell the User to quit it manually
#

# Default value - configure to your hearts content
app_to_quit = "Vodafone Mobile Broadband"

# You can also overide this on the command line
import sys
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    app_to_quit = sys.argv[1]

def call(command_sequence):
	if sys.hexversion < 0x020500f0:
		# this is for Tiger (Python 2.3.5)
		print "nice_quit: script in tiger mode"
		import popen2
		return popen2.Popen3(command_sequence).wait()
	else:
	# this is available since python 2.5 (Leopard and above)
		print "nice_quit: script in leopard mode"
		import subprocess
		return subprocess.Popen(command_sequence).wait()

def switch_back_to_user():
    import os
    if 0 == os.geteuid():
        os.seteuid(os.getuid())

def is_app_running():
    return 0 == call(["/usr/bin/killall", "-dc", app_to_quit])

def try_to_quit_app_and_wait():
    apple_script = """tell application "%s" \n activate\n quit\n end tell""" % app_to_quit
    call(["/usr/bin/osascript", "-e", apple_script])
    
    # In theory it should be gone by now, but I saw once that 
    # the first check after this still showed it running. :-(
    import time
    time.sleep(1)

def tell_user_about_it():
    apple_script = """
	
set my_file to POSIX path of "<ICON_FILE_PATH>"
set icon_file to (POSIX file my_file) as alias

tell application "System Events"
	activate
	display dialog "<VMB_IS_RUNNING>" buttons {"<VMB_BUTTON_NAME>"} default button 1 with icon icon_file with title "<VMB_UNINSTALLER>"
end tell

    """ 
    call(["/usr/bin/osascript", "-e", apple_script])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if is_app_running():
        switch_back_to_user()
        
        try_to_quit_app_and_wait()
        
        while is_app_running():
            tell_user_about_it()