signals

• changed should emit when an app is installed or uninstalled but doesn't always work

methods

• query: (string) => App[] takes a string and returns a list of apps that match one of the following: app name, app description, executable name or .desktop file.
• reload: () => void explicitly reload the application list.

properties

• list: Application[] a full list of available applications

Application

properties

• app: Gio.DesktopAppInfo the corresponding app info object
• name: string name of the app
• desktop: string | null the .desktop file
• description: string | null description of the app
• executable: string name of the executable binary
• icon-name: string the Icon entry in the corresponding .desktop file, can be a named icon or a path to an image
• frequency: 'number' number to take into consideration when sorting on query calls

methods

• launch: () => void launches the app, you could also do Utils.execAsync(['bash', '-c', app.executable]), but the launch method keeps track of the frequency of launches which is used to sort the query
• match: (string) => boolean returns whether a search term matches the app
• reload: () => void rereads .desktop files

Example Applauncher