favorites

js/ui/appDisplay.js

@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ AppDisplay.prototype = {
     _redisplay : function() {
         // Ask or more app than we need, since the list of recently used apps
         // might contain an app we don't have a desktop file for
-        var running = this._appMonitor.get_running_apps();
+        var running = this._appMonitor.get_running_app_guesses();
         for (let i = 0; i < running.length; i++) {
             let appId = apps[i] + ".desktop";
             let appInfo = this._allItems[appId];

src/shell-app-system.c

@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ struct _ShellAppSystemPrivate {
   GSList *cached_app_menus; /* ShellAppMenuEntry */
 
   GSList *cached_setting_ids; /* utf8 */
+
+  GSList *cached_favorites; /* utf8 */
 };
 
 static void shell_app_system_finalize (GObject *object);
@@ -310,3 +312,17 @@ shell_app_system_get_all_settings (ShellAppSystem *monitor)
 {
   return monitor->priv->cached_setting_ids;
 }
+
+/**
+ * shell_app_system_get_favorites:
+ *
+ * Return the list of applications which have been explicitly added to the
+ * favorites.
+ *
+ * Return value: (transfer none) (element-type utf8): List of favorite application ids
+ */
+GSList *
+shell_app_system_get_favorites (ShellAppSystem *system)
+{
+  return monitor->priv->cached_favorites;
+}

src/shell-app-system.h

@@ -47,4 +47,6 @@ GSList *shell_app_system_get_menus (ShellAppSystem *system);
 
 GSList *shell_app_system_get_all_settings (ShellAppSystem *system);
 
+GSList *shell_app_system_get_favorites (ShellAppSystem *system);
+
 #endif /* __SHELL_APP_SYSTEM_H__ */