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

[Michael Hall]

Correct, these come from the .desktop file and are part of the XDG
DesktopEntry spec:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s10.html

Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com

On 12/10/2015 12:14 AM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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