Gio.DesktopAppInfo.search

function search(search_string: String): Array(Array(String)) {
    // Gjs wrapper for g_desktop_app_info_search()
}
  

Searches desktop files for ones that match search_string.

The return value is an array of strvs. Each strv contains a list of applications that matched search_string with an equal score. The outer list is sorted by score so that the first strv contains the best-matching applications, and so on. The algorithm for determining matches is undefined and may change at any time.

search_string

the search string to use

Returns

a list of strvs. Free each item with GLib.strfreev and free the outer list with GLib.free.