By using this component, you can use routines based on the xdg-utils scripts of the Portland project to run, among other things, independently of the desktop:

• Open files in the user's preferred browser,
• Send or receive e-mails or
• Manage the screensaver.

You will learn how to send keyboard events to the window that has the focus, save and retrieve passwords depending on the desktop environment in use. It shows you how to manage top-level windows using freedesktop.org window manager specifications.

The following sections describe the following classes of the Desktop component with their properties, methods and events:

• Desktop
• DesktopFile
• DesktopMime
• DesktopWatcher
• DesktopWindow

Figure 15.0.1: Project example for using the class SendMail