Part II. API Reference

Table of Contents

File Operations

GFile — File and Directory Handling
GFileAttribute — Key-Value Paired File Attributes
GFileInfo — File Information and Attributes
GFileEnumerator — Enumerated Files Routines
GMountOperation — Authentication methods for mountable locations
GIOError — Error helper functions

File System Monitoring

GFileMonitor — File Monitor

Asynchronous I/O

GCancellable — Thread-safe Operation Cancellation Stack
GAsyncResult — Asynchronous Function Results
GIOScheduler — I/O Scheduler
GSimpleAsyncResult — Simple asynchronous results implementation

Streaming I/O

GSeekable — Stream seeking interface
GInputStream — Base class for implementing streaming input
GOutputStream — Base class for implementing streaming output
GFileInputStream — File input streaming operations
GFileOutputStream — File output streaming operations
GFilterInputStream — Filter Input Stream
GFilterOutputStream — Filter Output Stream
GMemoryInputStream — Streaming input operations on memory chunks
GMemoryOutputStream — Streaming output operations on memory chunks
GBufferedInputStream — Buffered Input Stream
GBufferedOutputStream — Buffered Output Stream
GDataInputStream — Data Input Stream
GDataOutputStream — Data Output Stream
GUnixInputStream — Streaming input operations for UNIX file descriptors
GUnixOutputStream — Streaming output operations for Unix file descriptors

File types and applications

GContentType — Platform-specific content typing
GAppInfo — Application information and launch contexts
Desktop file based GAppInfo — Application information from desktop files

Volumes and Drives

GVolumeMonitor — Volume Monitor
GVolume — Volume management
GMount — Mount management
GDrive — Virtual File System drive management
Unix Mounts — Unix Mounts

GIcon — Interface for icons
GFileIcon — Icons pointing to an image file
GLoadableIcon — Loadable Icons
GThemedIcon — Icon theming support
GEmblemedIcon — Icon with emblems
GEmblem — An object for emblems

GFilenameCompleter — Filename Completer

Extending GIO

GVfs — Virtual File System
GIOModule — Loadable GIO Modules
Extension Points — Extension Points