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

[Dan Hitt]

Thanks Nathan.

I notice that the tree https://developer.ubuntu.com/api/devel/ stops at 14.10.

Is there any particular reason for this?

Anyhow, thanks again everybody for all these helpful links about how an
app can take advantage of its environment.

dan

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Nathan Haines <nhaines at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 12/10/2015 06:11 PM, Dan Hitt wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Michael, Juhapekka, and Thomas for the information and the links.
>>
>> The concept is very interesting, because it means that an app doesn't have
>> to know very much to get those right click menus --- it just needs
>> somebody
>> to have set up a *.desktop for it.
>>
>> Obviously that's a big plus, and clearly this kind of setup was intended
>> to
>> enhance portability.
>>
>> It does seem pretty static, though, but i'm not sure i have a plausible
>> use case why something more dynamic would be useful sometimes.
>
>
> The Unity Action API ought to handle dynamic actions:
>
> https://developer.ubuntu.com/api/devel/ubuntu-13.10/cplusplus/unity-action/
>
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