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
