Hi Amy, Dunno if this helps, on my system (Mageia2) the best indicator of installed apps is /usr/share/applications. In there is a .desktop file defined for each (from the repo) installed application.
You can enum these with GIO and request a desktopAppInfo from each of them, the desktopAppIfo contains info on path, icon, name etc... Success! -- (o_ //\ Regards, Groeten, V_/_ Bas Burger. On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:31:21 +1000 Amy C <mathematical.cof...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get a list of all installed applications on the system - > by "installed", the ones that turn up in the gnome-shell application > list will do. > > Usually I would use Shell.AppSystem.get_default.get_all() to get this > list, but in this case I want to get the list from the prefs.js > widget. Hence, I can't use Shell. > > I also tried using a Gtk.AppChooserDialog but this doesn't show all > applications (e.g. the terminal, which I definitely want to show up), > and one of the list users (Milan) pointed out to me that this is > because the terminal has no MIME types. > > So, how can I get a list of installed applications from a process > outside of the gnome-shell one (no access to Shell, etc)? > > For example gcampax's Auto Move Windows extension has a prefs dialog > where you can select an application to apply a rule to, but it uses > Gtk.AppChooserDialog so if I wanted to apply a rule to the Terminal, I > wouldn't be able to. > > cheers > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
