Desktop file based GAppInfo

Desktop file based GAppInfo — Application information from desktop files

Synopsis


#include <gio/gdesktopappinfo.h>


                    GDesktopAppInfo;
GDesktopAppInfo*    g_desktop_app_info_new_from_filename
                                                        (const char *filename);
GDesktopAppInfo*    g_desktop_app_info_new              (const char *desktop_id);
gboolean            g_desktop_app_info_get_is_hidden    (GDesktopAppInfo *info);
void                g_desktop_app_info_set_desktop_env  (const char *desktop_env);

Object Hierarchy


  GObject
   +----GDesktopAppInfo

Implemented Interfaces

GDesktopAppInfo implements GAppInfo.

Description

GDesktopAppInfo is an implementation of GAppInfo based on desktop files.

Details

GDesktopAppInfo

typedef struct _GDesktopAppInfo GDesktopAppInfo;

Information about an installed application from a desktop file.

g_desktop_app_info_new_from_filename ()

GDesktopAppInfo*    g_desktop_app_info_new_from_filename
                                                        (const char *filename);

Creates a new GDesktopAppInfo.

filename :

 a string containing a file name.

Returns :

 a new GDesktopAppInfo or NULL on error.

g_desktop_app_info_new ()

GDesktopAppInfo*    g_desktop_app_info_new              (const char *desktop_id);

Creates a new GDesktopAppInfo.

desktop_id :

 the desktop file id

Returns :

 a new GDesktopAppInfo, or NULL if no desktop file with that id

g_desktop_app_info_get_is_hidden ()

gboolean            g_desktop_app_info_get_is_hidden    (GDesktopAppInfo *info);

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

info :

 a GDesktopAppInfo.

Returns :

 TRUE if hidden, FALSE otherwise.

g_desktop_app_info_set_desktop_env ()

void                g_desktop_app_info_set_desktop_env  (const char *desktop_env);

Sets the name of the desktop that the application is running in. This is used by g_app_info_should_show() to evaluate the OnlyShowIn and NotShowIn desktop entry fields.

The Desktop Menu specification recognizes the following:

GNOME
KDE
ROX
XFCE
Old

Should be called only once; subsequent calls are ignored.

desktop_env :

 a string specifying what desktop this is