appman-vala/STRUCTURE.md

Structure of the library

The library is strctured in several classes, the three most simple classes are:

• Constants.vala : Contains some constant values
• Printer.vala : Has some utility functions to print messages
• App.vala : Contains the details of an application (name, icon path, etc.) obtained from its .desktop file.

The other classes are:

• ApplicationHandler.vala : Retrieve the .desktop files and create a list of applications (App objects).
• IconManager.vala : Tries to find the icon for the current theme, if it fails it will search inside the folders of the other themes.
• IconTheme.vala : Enumerates all the directories of the specified theme.
• IconDirectory.vala : Analyzes all the icons inside a directory.