GioUnix.DesktopAppInfo.new_from_filename
Description: Reference for GioUnix.DesktopAppInfo.new_from_filename

### Constructor

# GioUnix DesktopAppInfonew_from_filename

#### Declaration [src]

    GDesktopAppInfo*
    g_desktop_app_info_new_from_filename (
      const char* filename
    )

#### Description [src]

Creates a new `GDesktopAppInfo`.

#### Parameters

`filename`

  Type: `const char*`

  The path of a desktop file, in the GLib filename encoding.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.

#### Return value

Type: `GDesktopAppInfo`

A new `GDesktopAppInfo` or `NULL` on error.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The return value can be `NULL`.