C api for an application to access the menus of its icon in the dock

Thomas Mashos thomas at mashos.com
Thu Dec 10 05:14:20 UTC 2015


I could be completely wrong about this, but I'm not at home so I can't look
it up. I thought that I saw stuff related to this in the Firefox .desktop
file. Maybe take a look in there

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015, 9:11 PM Dan Hitt <dan.hitt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some applications which run on ubuntu have more extensive menus their
> dock icons than others.
>
> For example, Firefox and Terminal both gives ways to create a new
> window directly from their dock icons, while (e.g.) gimp does not.
>
> So i assume that this means that there is an api that an application
> can use to manage its dock menus.
>
> Is this the case?
>
> Is there a C version of this api?
>
> Where is it documented?
>
> And how could i look up this information in the system docs?
>
> Thanks in advance for any info.
>
> dan
>
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