I hate flash, but I need flash

Since past week, I switched to my desktop computer. Is a 64 bit AMD quadcore, with 4 GB ram, an NVidia 9500 GT card and 2 SATA-II disks (500 GB each).

What problem could I have with this powerful computer, simple, flash (and some movies problems, but the codecs are not supported to 64 bits yet).

So I decided to make this simple, I first made a script called kill_flash:

#!/bin/bash

PID=`ps -ef|grep -i chrome|grep -i adobe|perl -lane 'print $F[1];'`
echo "pid: $PID"
kill -9 $PID
echo "RC: $?"

That was quite useful, but as when I see flash things, I'm using mostly just a browser, and was quite annoying to go to the console and type kill_flash. So I made my first ruby + gtk2 app (is short, but useful to me):

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'sys/proctable'
include Sys
require 'gtk2'

$ToKill = Array.new()

def do_kill_flash
  $ToKill.each{|mpid|
    Process.kill("KILL",mpid)
  }
end

window = Gtk::Window.new
window.signal_connect("delete_event") {
  puts "delete event occurred"
  #true
  false
}

window.signal_connect("destroy") {
  puts "destroy event occurred"
  Gtk.main_quit
}

buttonKillFlash = Gtk::Button.new("Kill Flash")
buttonKillFlash.signal_connect("clicked") {
  msg = "Kill the following: \n"
  ProcTable.ps{|ps|
    if ps.cmdline =~ /flashplugin-nonfree\/libflashplayer/
      msg = msg.to_s + ps.cmdline
      $ToKill.push(ps.pid.to_i)
    end
  }
  msg = msg.to_s + "?"
  unless $ToKill.empty?
    dialog = Gtk::MessageDialog.new(window, 
                                    Gtk::Dialog::DESTROY_WITH_PARENT,
                                    Gtk::MessageDialog::QUESTION,
                                    Gtk::MessageDialog::BUTTONS_OK_CANCEL,
                                    msg)
    dialog.run do |response|
      case response
        when Gtk::Dialog::RESPONSE_OK
          do_kill_flash
      end
    end
  else
    dialog = Gtk::MessageDialog.new(window,
                                    Gtk::Dialog::DESTROY_WITH_PARENT,
                                    Gtk::MessageDialog::QUESTION,
                                    Gtk::MessageDialog::BUTTONS_OK,
                                    "Nothing to kill")
    dialog.run
  end
  dialog.destroy

}

button_exit = Gtk::Button.new("close")
button_exit.signal_connect("clicked"){
  Gtk.main_quit
}

box = Gtk::VBox.new(false,0)
box.pack_start(buttonKillFlash,true,false,2)
box.pack_start(button_exit,true,false,2)
window.border_width = 10
window.add(box)
window.show_all

Gtk.main

As you could see, this code is dirty and quick. In the future, I'll put some other buttons to make other things (like make a class to the do_kill_flash), but for now, is useful to me.

Making a gnome applet was quite difficult, and I should write more code, just to make the kill, but when I read more on that, I'll put the code here.