Some desktop file directories, like /usr/local/share/applications may be
missing on some systems.
When we try to inotify on these directories, this will result in a
every-4-seconds poll being setup which is quite bad.
This is an issue that should be fixed in inotify itself but the problem
is much larger there. For now, we can work around it in GDesktopAppInfo
by refusing to monitor missing directories.
We may get some spurious notifications of changes in the case that
/usr/local/share or /usr/local/share/applications is created without
actually adding desktop files, but spurious changes can already be
reported in other cases, so that's OK. We won't get (user-visible)
notification for a simple case of a completely unrelated file being
created (however we cannot avoid the wakeup in this case due to how
inotify works). That's probably pretty theoretical, though, since files
in /usr don't change much and for the home directory we're likely to
have at least ~/.config and ~/.local existing.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736350
We use "tweaks" structures to track how a particular directory impacts
the list of added, removed and default applications. We maintain this
set of tweaks for each directory, in a hash table, keyed by unaliased
mime type name, in order to facilitate fast lookups.
A typo in the logic for creating and maintaining the uniqueness of these
structures was causing the default app to be selected incorrectly from
time to time. Fix that.
Expand the functionality of g_desktop_app_info_set_desktop_env() to
include the possibility of passing strings containing ':' characters (as
some apps, such as gnome-session, are directly passing the value of
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP). At the same time, deprecate it, since now we get
the list from the environment variable for ourselves.
Modify the checks in g_desktop_app_info_get_show_in() to deal with
multiple items listed in XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP. For example, if we find
that we have
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME-Classic:GNOME
and a desktop file contains:
OnlyShowIn=GNOME
then we will show this file because of the fallback to GNOME. If the
file _also_ contains the line:
NotShowIn=GNOME-Classic
Then we will not show it, because GNOME-Classic comes before GNOME in
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729813
Redo the code for type-based selection of applications (all,
recommended, default, fallback) based on the new DesktopFileDir
structures that we introduced last cycle.
At the same time, we expand the functionality to add support for the new
features of the specification:
- moving ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list to ~/.config/
- per-desktop default applications (via XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP)
- sysadmin customisation of defaults (via /etc/xdg/mimeapps.list)
- deprecation of the old defaults.list, favouring the use of
/usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list (or gnome-mimeapps.list) to
accomplish the same
We modify the mimeapps testcase to check for mimeapps.list having been
created in XDG_CONFIG_HOME instead of XDG_DATA_HOME.
The modification is a net reduction of code (due to less duplication in
bookkeeping). It is also an increase in performance and reduction in
memory consumption (due to simplified data structures). Finally, it
removes the stat-based timestamp checking in favour of the
GFileMonitor-based approach that was already being used in the
implementation of DesktopFileDir (in order to know if we had to rescan
the desktop files themselves).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728040
The app launch context may just not support startup notification,
in which case, g_app_launch_context_get_startup_notify_id() will
return NULL.
Failure to take this into account leads to criticals like this:
gnome-session[8489]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_variant_new_take_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed
gnome-session[8489]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_variant_new_variant: assertion 'value != NULL' failed
gnome-session[8489]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_variant_get_type: assertion 'value != NULL' failed
gnome-session[8489]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_variant_type_is_subtype_of: assertion 'g_variant_type_check (type)' failed
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728066
Add the basename from the first component of the Exec line to the list of
strings to search for via g_desktop_app_info_search().
We treat Exec as a fairly strong match -- just below the visible name.
Add a testcase to make sure everything is working OK.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725023
Since all element markup is now gone from the doc comments,
we can turn off the gtk-doc sgml mode, which means that from
now on, docbook markup is no longer allowed in doc comments.
To make this possible, we have to replace all remaining
entities in doc comments by their replacement text, & -> &
and so on.
Add missing (allow-none) annotations to
g_desktop_app_info_launch_uris_as_manager(). Tested with
python -c "from gi.repository import GLib, Gio; Gio.DesktopAppInfo.new('gcalctool.desktop').launch_uris_as_manager([], None, GLib.SpawnFlags.SEARCH_PATH|GLib.SpawnFlags.STDOUT_TO_DEV_NULL, None, None, None, None)"
which is necessary to do a launch_uris() without leaking stdout.
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1259721
It makes sense to match on GenericName in case an application does
not provide any keywords, but the Keywords field has been added
to explicitly support the search case, while GenericName was used
to be displayed in menus, so it makes more sense to consider
Keywords more (or equally) relevant for search.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711640
The first time this function is called we load all of the keyfiles in
the directory, ignoring the 'Hidden' ones and build an index out of the
interesting fields using g_str_tokenize_and_fold().
We do prefix matching on the tokens to find relevent desktop files.
Right now this is implemented as a hashtable that we iterate over,
checking prefixes on each token. This could possibly be sped up by
creating an array, but it's already pretty fast...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711557
In each DesktopFileDir, store a list of desktop files for that
directory. This speeds up opening desktop files by name because we can
skip statting in directories that we know don't have the file and also
speeds up _get_all() because we can avoid enumeration.
This also improves our support for dealing with names like
'kde4/kate.desktop' (equivalent to kde4-kate.desktop) since we find out
about all of these files are the start and don't need to guess about
which '-' to change to a '/'. It also means that we can easily deal
with more than one level of such prefixes.
We use a file monitor to watch for changes, invalidating our lists when
we notice them.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711520
Fix up a lot of whitespace issues in this file since we're about to do
some pretty serious rewriting here anyway...
Add some fold markers while we're at it.
Change the search path to be a global array of 'DesktopFileDir' structures and
change the 'get' function to an 'ensure' function.
This is just a straight-up refactor. Future patches will expand the
DesktopFileDir structure.
Rather than always calling out to g_file_get_path() (which
might block, whatever the documentation might say), postpone
the call until we actually need it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708753
A previous version of the patch had OnlyShowIn support for desktop file
actions. This was removed from the spec and the patch rewritten, but
this bit of documentation slipped through. Remove it.
For some time, the desktop file specification has supported "additional
application actions". This is intended to allow for additional methods
of starting an app, such as a mail client having a "Compose New Message"
action that brings up the compose window instead of the folder list.
This patch adds support for this with a relatively minimal API.
In the case that the application is a GApplication and DBusActivatable,
desktop actions are translated into GActions that have been added to the
application with g_action_map_add_action(). This more or less closes
the loop on being able to activate an application with an action
invocation (instead of 'activate').
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664444
There are two benefits to this:
1) We can centralize any operating system specific knowledge of
close-vs-EINTR handling. For example, while on Linux we should never
retry, if someone cared enough later about HP-UX, they could come by
and change this one spot.
2) For places that do care about the return value and want to provide
the caller with a GError, this function makes it convenient to do so.
Note that gspawn.c had an incorrect EINTR loop-retry around close().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682819
gnome-session needs to know the startup id that was given to
a started app; this was not available via GAppLaunchContext.
This commit adds a ::launched signal to get this information.
At the same time, turn the launch_failed vfunc into a signal
as well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688497
gnome-session still uses EggDesktopFile, since GDesktopAppInfo is
missing a handful of APIs that are needed to implement the
autostart spec. This patch adds the minimum that is required.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688497
Many (if not "almost all") programs that spawn other programs via
g_spawn_sync() or the like simply want to check whether or not the
child exited successfully, but doing so requires use of
platform-specific functionality and there's actually a fair amount of
boilerplate involved.
This new API will help drain a *lot* of mostly duplicated code in
GNOME, from gnome-session to gdm. And we can see that some bits even
inside GLib were doing it wrong; for example checking the exit status
on Unix, but ignoring it on Windows.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679691
We need to ignore the defaults.list item only when there
was a mimetype handler found in a previous mimetype, not
if one was found for the same mimetype as the one that
is listed in defaults.list (same for the new-style defaults).
There was an issue when looking up the default handler
for a type where a supertype was listed in defaults.list.
We would pick the default for the parent type even if
there was a handler for the more specific type.
In the case of the new-style defaults marking (
"Default Applications" in mimeapps.list) we were already
checking for a more specific handler befor using a default,
but we also need to do a similar check for the defaults.list
case.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678944
This essentially adds an accessor for the MimeType field in desktop files,
to retrieve the list of all mime types supported by an application.
The interface though is part of GAppInfo, so it could be implemented
in the future by other backends.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674111
If the launch context is a GAppLaunchContext, and not a
GdkAppLaunchContext, then g_app_launch_context_get_display will return
NULL because the get_display virtual method is undefined. The DISPLAY
might still be inherited from the parent process, in which case
overwriting it with NULL breaks the launch.
This is a regression introduced in:
de834bed30
Fixes: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/672786
Add new macros to disable -Wdeprecated-declarations around a piece of
code, using the C99 (and GNU89) _Pragma() operator. Replace the
existing use of #pragma for this in gio, and suppress the warnings in
gvaluearray.c as well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669671
Add functions for manipulating the environment under which a
GAppLaunchContext will launch its children, to avoid thread-related
bugs with using setenv() directly.
FIXME: win32 side isn't implemented yet
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659326
With search gaining traction as being the preferred way to locate
applications, the existing .desktop file fields meant for browsing
often produce insufficient results.
gnome-control-center introduced a custom X-GNOME-Keywords field for
that purpose, which we plan to support in gnome-shell as well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661763
Previously, we took the default application for a particular mimetype
from the system and copied it into the user's configuration as the
default there.
Instead of doing that we leave the user's default unset, and at time of
use, if the user has no explicitly-set default value, we use the system
default.
This avoids complicated situations where inappropriate applications were
being set as the default in the user's configuration.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658188
* Do not ignore the system default
* Do not exclude the last used being set from the default list
This fixes the default applications dialog in control-center.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658188
g_desktop_app_info_set_as_default_for_type() and
g_desktop_app_info_set_as_last_used_for_type () require the
application's ID, but depending on how the GAppInfo was created,
we might not be have one, and would thus silently fail to set
the default application, or last used application.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657445
GDesktopAppInfo violates the GObject rule that your C constructors
should just be thin wrappers around g_object_new(). While GKeyFile
isn't introspctable, this patch allows from JavaScript:
var app = new Gio.DesktopAppInfo({ filename: '/path/to/foo.desktop' });
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648425
We were considering explicitly configured defaults for parent types
after we already got results for the specific type we're interested in.
This resulted in the explicit default for text/plain to override all
system defaults for subtypes of text/plain, for example. The explicit
default should not apply to subtypes that have a system default.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642797
This will help applications such as zeitgeist's datahub to collect
more complete information about application launches, as the "actor"
of a launch is important for zeitgeist's magic to work properly.
If we were the initial connection owner, unref will destroy the
connection immediately, and we may lose messages. Asynchronously
flush to avoid that.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641411
If code creates a GDesktopAppInfo via g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile(),
we'd try to send a NULL pointer down into GVariant.
Since in this case we don't have a filename, just send the empty
string. In the future we should either:
1) Change panel to use g_desktop_app_info_new_from_filename(), and
take the hit of parsing the file twice.
2) Add a g_key_file_get_origin_filename()
3) Add g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile_and_name()
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638838
A new GDesktopAppInfo specific function which provides more control
over launched processes. Intended basically only for use in GNOME
Shell, where we want:
*) To directly know the GPid for each launched program, without
having to listen to a DBus signal emitted in our own process
*) Possibly control over the process environment; for example,
we may want to call setsid() or redirect file descriptors.
And in the future:
*) To avoid recursively calling ourself via DBus, when a later
patch causes g_app_info_launch() to indirect via the shell.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606960
This signal contains the full path of the .desktop file, along with
the process id, which allows multiple interested components (like
GNOME Shell) to better know the state of the system (which processes
correspond to which .desktop files).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606960
We want to be compatible with the following situation:
- there's no explicit default set in mimeapps.list
- we add support for a content type to a specific application, and that
list is empty
- the default should be picked from the system list, not overridden by
the user-added application.
So we make the default explicit in this case, by adding it to the
relevant section in mimeapps.list.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637675
This commit also changes (maintaining compatibility) the way
user-specified default applications are stored (as in, those for which
g_app_info_set_as_default_for_type() has been called.
We now store the default application for a content type in a new group
in the mimeapps.list keyfile, and "Added Associations" tracks only the
applications that have been added by the user, following a
most-recently-used first order.
This is useful in GtkAppChooser-like widgets to pre-select the last used
application when constructing a widget.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636311
Otherwise you break the fallback + recommended distinction for a content
type, as you end up adding support for a given content type to *all* of
the applications claiming to support the supertype.
This ways UIs can differentiate between them, and show them in different
section.
- a recommended app is an application that claims to support a content
type directly, not by a supertype derivation.
- a fallback app is an application that claims to support a supertype of
a given content type.
Removing an extension point is an API and ABI break. In particular, it
causes (older) gvfs versions to fail loading with a linkage error from
ld which in turn makes the desktop unusable.
So this reinstate the extension point and API provided by it, but
deprecates and does not use it. So no functionality is changed.
This reverts parts of commit 9b262f1c5f.
Complaints-Also-To: Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>
Move all the annotations over from gobject-introspection.
They will not be used directly by the introspection scanner for now,
instead they will be extracted by a script and updated manually
until introspection is properly integrated into the glib build
This adds a GApplication object to GIO, which is the core of
an application support class, supporting
- uniqueness
- exporting actions (simple scripting)
- standard actions (quit, activate)
The implementation for Linux uses D-Bus, takes a name on the
session bus, and exports a org.gtk.Application interface.
Implementations for Win32 and OS X are still missing.
Note: Since we export types with Iface in the name rather than
Interface we have to use some typedefs to make this work. New
interfaces should probably use Interface as the public name.
2009-03-03 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
Bug 561172 – gnome-open fails on local URIs with anchors
* gdesktopappinfo.c:
Don't force uris to filenames if the uri has an anchor, because
that would strip the anchor.
* glocalvfs.c:
Strip anchor from file:// uris when creating GFile, since
g_filename_from_uri doesn't handle them.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7953
2009-02-26 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
* gdesktopappinfo.c:
Support desktop file key X-GIO-NoFuse which disables
use of fuse pathnames for %u and %U arguments.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7914
* gio.symbols:
* gappinfo.[hc]: Add g_app_info_get_commandline. Requested
by Hans Petter Jansson.
* gdesktopappinfo.c: And implement it here.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7706
2008-11-28 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
Bug 559633 – gtk_image_new_from_gicon does not always work for
.desktop files
* gdesktopappinfo.c (g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile): Ignore
extensions on icon names. Proposed by Axel von Bertoldi.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7698
* gdesktopappinfo.c (g_app_info_can_delete): Only allow deleting
files that have been created by g_app_info_create_from_commandline.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7693
2008-10-13 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
* gdesktopappinfo.c:
When adding an application as handling a mime type (but
not as the default), copy the full list of desktop ids handling
that type in before adding the new one on the end of the list.
This means we're not accidentally changing the default by overriding
the info from the later directories in the search path.
Also, fixes small leak of removed_entries.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7595
2008-10-05 Pascal Terjan <pterjan@linuxfr.org>
Bug 554970 â segfault when update-desktop-database is not available
on the system
* gdesktopappinfo.c (run_update_command): Have the error set before
using it.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7570
2008-10-01 David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
* gdesktopappinfo.c (expand_macro): If possible, always pass FUSE
file:// URIs (such as '/home/davidz/.gvfs/sftp on foo/file.avi')
instead of the gio URI (such as sftp://foo/file.avi) when using
g_app_info_launch() and friends. With a sufficiently recent gvfs,
apps using gio+gvfs will map the FUSE file:// URI back to the gio
URI (and thus bypass the fuse daemon) thanks the patch from bug
#530654. Since Nautilus is an user of g_app_info_launch() it
means that non-gio POSIX apps, such as mplayer, will Just Work(tm)
when launced via the file manager. Win. Fixes bug #528670.
* gappinfo.c: Add some notes about the FUSE POSIX URI <-> GIO URI
mapping to the description of GAppInfo.
2008-10-01 David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
* README.in: Add "Notes about glib 2.20" section detailing the
ramifications of the patch from bug #528670.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7566
* gdesktopappinfo.c (get_all_desktop_entries_for_mime_type): add a
cast to stop a gcc warning
* gfile.c (g_file_copy_attributes): add parens to stop a gcc
warning
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7550
2008-09-16 Wouter Bolsterlee <wbolster@svn.gnome.org>
* gdesktopappinfo.c (g_desktop_app_info_new_from_keyfile):
Fix trivial typo to unbreak the build (there was a colon
instead of a semicolon at the end of a statement).
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7500
2008-09-14 Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc@gnome.org>
Bug 551887 – Docs for g_desktop_app_info_new_from_filename ()
aren't clear.
* gdesktopappinfo.c: add a note in the docs clarifying what the
"filename" parameter really is.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7481
2008-07-28 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
Bug 545157 – wrong/no list of "open with" applications for .cc and
.cpp files
* gdesktopappinfo.c (get_all_desktop_entries_for_mime_type):
Collect all ancestors, not just direct parents. Pointed
out by Bastien Nocera
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7268
* gio.symbols:
* gdesktopappinfo.[hc]: Add a function to create a
GDesktopAppInfo from a GKeyFile. Proposed by Josselin Mouette.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7143
2008-07-01 Cody Russell <bratsche@gnome.org>
* gio/gioenums.h:
* gio/giotypes.h:
Moved all relevant typedefs into these files.
* gio/*.[ch]:
Updated wrt added files.
Split types into separate file for easier maintainership. (#538564)
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7127
2008-04-16 Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com>
* gdesktopappinfo.c (g_desktop_app_info_new_from_filename):
tolerate an empty TryExec= line without failing; nautilus used
to create launchers with these in previous versions. Fixes#528433
svn path=/trunk/; revision=6853
