Class

GioDesktopAppInfo

Description [src]

final class Gio.DesktopAppInfo : GObject.Object
  implements Gio.AppInfo {
  /* No available fields */
}

GDesktopAppInfo is an implementation of GAppInfo based on desktop files.

Note that <gio/gdesktopappinfo.h> belongs to the UNIX-specific GIO interfaces, thus you have to use the gio-unix-2.0.pc pkg-config file or the GioUnix-2.0 GIR namespace when using it.

Ancestors

Implements

Constructors

g_desktop_app_info_new

Creates a new GDesktopAppInfo based on a desktop file ID.

g_desktop_app_info_new_from_filename

Creates a new GDesktopAppInfo.

g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile

Creates a new GDesktopAppInfo.

since: 2.18

Functions

g_desktop_app_info_get_implementations

Gets all applications that implement interface.

since: 2.42

g_desktop_app_info_search

Searches desktop files for ones that match search_string.

g_desktop_app_info_set_desktop_env

Sets the name of the desktop that the application is running in.

deprecated: 2.42 

Instance methods

g_desktop_app_info_get_action_name

Gets the user-visible display name of the ‘additional application actions’ specified by action_name.

since: 2.38

g_desktop_app_info_get_boolean

Looks up a boolean value in the keyfile backing info.

since: 2.36

g_desktop_app_info_get_categories

Gets the categories from the desktop file.

g_desktop_app_info_get_filename

When info was created from a known filename, return it. In some situations such as a GDesktopAppInfo returned from g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile(), this function will return NULL.

since: 2.24

g_desktop_app_info_get_generic_name

Gets the generic name from the desktop file.

g_desktop_app_info_get_is_hidden

A desktop file is hidden if the Hidden key in it is set to True.

g_desktop_app_info_get_keywords

Gets the keywords from the desktop file.

since: 2.32

g_desktop_app_info_get_locale_string

Looks up a localized string value in the keyfile backing info translated to the current locale.

since: 2.56

g_desktop_app_info_get_nodisplay

Gets the value of the NoDisplay key which helps determine if the application info should be shown in menus. See G_KEY_FILE_DESKTOP_KEY_NO_DISPLAY and g_app_info_should_show().

since: 2.30

g_desktop_app_info_get_show_in

Checks if the application info should be shown in menus that list available applications for a specific name of the desktop, based on the OnlyShowIn and NotShowIn keys.

since: 2.30

g_desktop_app_info_get_startup_wm_class

Retrieves the StartupWMClass field from info. This represents the WM_CLASS property of the main window of the application, if launched through info.

since: 2.34

g_desktop_app_info_get_string

Looks up a string value in the keyfile backing info.

since: 2.36

g_desktop_app_info_get_string_list

Looks up a string list value in the keyfile backing info.

since: 2.60

g_desktop_app_info_has_key

Returns whether key exists in the Desktop Entry group of the keyfile backing info.

since: 2.36

g_desktop_app_info_launch_action

Activates the named application action.

since: 2.38

g_desktop_app_info_launch_uris_as_manager

This function performs the equivalent of g_app_info_launch_uris(), but is intended primarily for operating system components that launch applications. Ordinary applications should use g_app_info_launch_uris().

g_desktop_app_info_launch_uris_as_manager_with_fds

Equivalent to g_desktop_app_info_launch_uris_as_manager() but allows you to pass in file descriptors for the stdin, stdout and stderr streams of the launched process.

since: 2.58

g_desktop_app_info_list_actions

Returns the list of ‘additional application actions’ supported on the desktop file, as per the desktop file specification.

since: 2.38

Methods inherited from GObject (43)

Please see GObject for a full list of methods.

Methods inherited from GAppInfo (25)

Please see GAppInfo for a full list of methods.

Properties

Gio.DesktopAppInfo:filename

The origin filename of this GDesktopAppInfo.

Signals

Signals inherited from GObject (1)
GObject::notify

The notify signal is emitted on an object when one of its properties has its value set through g_object_set_property(), g_object_set(), et al.

Class structure

struct GioDesktopAppInfoClass {
  GObjectClass parent_class;
  
}

No description available.

Class members
parent_class: GObjectClass

No description available.