[SOLVED] Re: List of installed applications from prefs.js

2012-08-26 Thread Amy C
(sorry if you get this email twice - the first time I sent I attached a .js file so the mail got rejected, so I've changed the file extension to .txt) On 25 August 2012 01:24, Florian Müllner wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Amy C wrote: >> So, how can I get a list of installed applicat

Re: List of installed applications from prefs.js

2012-08-24 Thread Florian Müllner
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Amy C wrote: > Usually I would use Shell.AppSystem.get_default.get_all() to get this > list On a side note, shell_app_system_get_all() has been removed, so this won't work in 3.6 anyway :-) > So, how can I get a list of installed applications from a process > ou

Re: List of installed applications from prefs.js

2012-08-24 Thread Yaa101
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 co

List of installed applications from prefs.js

2012-08-24 Thread Amy C
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 w