GAppInfo {RGtk2} | R Documentation

## GAppInfo

### Description

Application information and launch contexts

### Methods and Functions

`gAppInfoCreateFromCommandline(commandline, application.name = NULL, flags = "G_APP_INFO_CREATE_NONE", .errwarn = TRUE)`
`gAppInfoDup(object)`
`gAppInfoEqual(object, appinfo2)`
`gAppInfoGetId(object)`
`gAppInfoGetName(object)`
`gAppInfoGetDescription(object)`
`gAppInfoGetExecutable(object)`
`gAppInfoGetCommandline(object)`
`gAppInfoGetIcon(object)`
`gAppInfoLaunch(object, files, launch.context, .errwarn = TRUE)`
`gAppInfoSupportsFiles(object)`
`gAppInfoSupportsUris(object)`
`gAppInfoLaunchUris(object, uris, launch.context, .errwarn = TRUE)`
`gAppInfoShouldShow(object)`
`gAppInfoCanDelete(object)`
`gAppInfoDelete(object)`
`gAppInfoResetTypeAssociations(content.type)`
`gAppInfoSetAsDefaultForType(object, content.type, .errwarn = TRUE)`
`gAppInfoSetAsDefaultForExtension(object, extension, .errwarn = TRUE)`
`gAppInfoAddSupportsType(object, content.type, .errwarn = TRUE)`
`gAppInfoCanRemoveSupportsType(object)`
`gAppInfoRemoveSupportsType(object, content.type, .errwarn = TRUE)`
`gAppInfoGetAll()`
`gAppInfoGetAllForType(content.type)`
`gAppInfoGetDefaultForType(content.type, must.support.uris)`
`gAppInfoGetDefaultForUriScheme(uri.scheme)`
`gAppInfoLaunchDefaultForUri(uri, launch.context, .errwarn = TRUE)`
`gAppLaunchContextGetDisplay(object, info, files)`
`gAppLaunchContextGetStartupNotifyId(object, info, files)`
`gAppLaunchContextLaunchFailed(object, startup.notify.id)`
`gAppLaunchContextNew()`
`gAppLaunchContext()`

### Hierarchy

    GFlags
       +----GAppInfoCreateFlags
    GInterface
       +----GAppInfo
    GObject
       +----GAppLaunchContext

### Implementations

GAppInfo is implemented by GDesktopAppInfo.

### Detailed Description

`GAppInfo` and `GAppLaunchContext` are used for describing and launching applications installed on the system.

As of GLib 2.20, URIs will always be converted to POSIX paths (using `gFileGetPath`) when using `gAppInfoLaunch` even if the application requested an URI and not a POSIX path. For example for an desktop-file based application with Exec key `totem % U` and a single URI, `sftp://foo/file.avi`, then `/home/user/.gvfs/sftp on foo/file.avi` will be passed. This will only work if a set of suitable GIO extensions (such as gvfs 2.26 compiled with FUSE support), is available and operational; if this is not the case, the URI will be passed unmodified to the application. Some URIs, such as `mailto:`, of course cannot be mapped to a POSIX path (in gvfs there's no FUSE mount for it); such URIs will be passed unmodified to the application.

Specifically for gvfs 2.26 and later, the POSIX URI will be mapped back to the GIO URI in the `GFile` constructors (since gvfs implements the `GVfs` extension point). As such, if the application needs to examine the URI, it needs to use `gFileGetUri` or similar on `GFile`. In other words, an application cannot assume that the URI passed to e.g. `gFileNewForCommandlineArg` is equal to the result of `gFileGetUri`. The following snippet illustrates this:

    GFile *f;
    char *uri;

    file = g_file_new_for_commandline_arg (uri_from_commandline);

    uri = g_file_get_uri (file);
    strcmp (uri, uri_from_commandline) == 0; // FALSE
    g_free (uri);

    if (g_file_has_uri_scheme (file, "cdda"))
      {
        // do something special with uri
      }
    g_object_unref (file);

This code will work when both `cdda://sr0/Track 1.wav` and `/home/user/.gvfs/cdda on sr0/Track 1.wav` is passed to the application. It should be noted that it's generally not safe for applications to rely on the format of a particular URIs. Different launcher applications (e.g. file managers) may have different ideas of what a given URI means.

### Structures

`GAppInfo`

  Information about an installed application and methods to launch it (with file arguments).

`GAppLaunchContext`

  Integrating the launch with the launching application. This is used to handle for instance startup notification and launching the new application on the same screen as the launching window.

### Convenient Construction

`gAppLaunchContext` is the equivalent of `gAppLaunchContextNew`.

### Enums and Flags

`GAppInfoCreateFlags`

  Flags used when creating a `GAppInfo`.

  `one`

    No flags.

  `eeds-terminal`

    Application opens in a terminal window.

### Author(s)

Derived by RGtkGen from GTK+ documentation

### References

https://developer-old.gnome.org/gio/stable/GAppInfo.html

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