Method

GioAppInfoget_id

Declaration

const char*
g_app_info_get_id (
  GAppInfo* appinfo
)

Description

Gets the ID of an application. An id is a string that identifies the application. The exact format of the id is platform dependent. For instance, on Unix this is the desktop file id from the xdg menu specification.

Note that the returned ID may be NULL, depending on how the appinfo has been constructed.

Return value

Type: const char*

A string containing the application’s ID.

The data is owned by the instance.

The return value can be NULL.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.