AppInfoManager

Object Hierarchy:

Unity.AppInfoManager Unity.AppInfoManager Unity.AppInfoManager GLib.Object GLib.Object GLib.Object->Unity.AppInfoManager

Description:


public class AppInfoManager : Object

A singleton class that caches GLib.AppInfo objects. Singletons are evil, yes, but this on slightly less so because the exposed API is immutable.

To detect when any of the managed AppInfo objects changes, appears, or goes away listen for the 'changed' signal.


Namespace: Unity
Package: unity

Content:

Static methods:

  • public static AppInfoManager get_default ()
    Get a ref to the singleton AppInfoManager
  • public static AppInfoManager get_instance ()

Methods:

  • public void clear ()
  • public unowned string[]? get_categories (string id)
    Look up XDG categories for for desktop id or file path @id. Returns null if id is not found. This method will do sync IO if the desktop file for @id is not already cached. So if you are living in an async world you must first do an async call to lookup_async(id) before calling this method, in which case no sync io will be done.
  • public unowned string[]? get_keywords (string id)
    Look up keywords for for desktop id or file path @id. The keywords will be an amalgamation of the X-GNOME-Keywords and X-AppInstall-Keywords fields from the .desktopfile. Returns null if id is not found. This method will do sync IO if the desktop file for @id is not already cached. So if you are living in an async world you must first do an async call to lookup_async(id) before calling this method, in which case no sync io will be done.
  • public string? get_path (string id)
    Look up the full path to the desktop file for desktop id @id. Returns null if @id is not found. This method will do sync IO if the desktop file for @id is not already cached. So if you are living in an async world you must first do an async call to lookup_async(id) before calling this method, in which case no sync io will be done.
  • public AppInfo? lookup (string id)
    Look up an AppInfo given its desktop id or absolute path. The desktop id is the base filename of the .desktop file for the application including the .desktop extension.
  • public async AppInfo? lookup_async (string id) throws Error
    Look up an AppInfo given its desktop id or absolute path. The desktop id is the base filename of the .desktop file for the application including the .desktop extension.

Signals:

  • public signal void changed (string id, AppInfo? new_appinfo)
    Emitted whenever an AppInfo in any of the monitored paths change. Note that @new_appinfo may be null in case it has been removed.

Inherited Members:

All known members inherited from class GLib.Object