Applications

class ignis.services.applications.ApplicationsService(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any)

Provides a list of applications installed on the system. It also allows "pinning" of apps and retrieving a list of pinned applications.

Properties:

• apps (list[Application], read-only): A list of all installed applications.

• pinned (list[Application], read-only): A list of all pinned applications.

Example usage:

from ignis.service.applications import ApplicationsService

applications = ApplicationsService.get_default()
for i in applications.apps:
    print(i.name)

search(query: str) → list[Application]

Filter applications by query.

Parameters:

query (str) -- the string to be searched for

Returns:

A list of applications filtered by provided query.

Return type:

list[Application]

class ignis.services.applications.Application(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any)

An application object.

Signals:

• "pinned": Emitted when the application has been pinned.

• "unpinned": Emitted when the application has been unpinned.

Properties:

• app (Gio.DesktopAppInfo, read-only): An instance of Gio.DesktopAppInfo. You typically shouldn't use this property.

• id (str | None, read-only): The ID of the application.

• name (str, read-only): The name of the application.

• description (str | None, read-only): The description of the application.

• icon (str, read-only): The icon of the application. If the app has no icon, "image-missing" will be returned.

• keywords (list[str], read-only): Keywords of the application. Ususally, these are words that describe the application.

• desktop_file (str | None, read-only): The full path to the .desktop file of the application.

• executable (str | None, read-only): The executable of the application.

• exec_string (str, read-only): The string that contains the executable with command line arguments, used to launch the application.

• actions (list[Application], read-only): A list of actions.

• is_pinned (bool, read-write): Whether the application is pinned.

pin() → None

Pin the application.

unpin() → None

Unpin the application.

launch() → None

Launch the application.

class ignis.services.applications.ApplicationAction(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any)

Application action.

Properties:

• action (str, read-only): ID of the action.

• name (str, read-only): Human-readable name of the action.

launch() → None

Launch action.