AppImageLauncher

Nice! How does it compare to https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher ?

Yes! It's very helpful, if you can get it on your distro. GitHub link: https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

There is AppImageLauncher [0] that can make it easier to get launcher shortcuts. [0] https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

There aren't centralized solutions that I know of, but there are projects such as AppImageLauncher[1] that can provide some automated management of that. It's not perfect but it is helpful. [1]: https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

i completely agree. for me, the only issues i've had with appimages are "housekeeping" UX: * i know they can technically be updated but i really have no idea how. would be cool to see a de-facto solution similar to sparkle[0] on mac * i use appimagelauncher[1] to integrate with my menus etc but sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't? i haven't really figured out the rhyme or reason [0] https://sparkle-project.org/ [1] https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

Try this: https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

I believe most projects that serve debs from their own download page do not try to package for each distro separately, and instead opt to package up requirements as needed. I can't comment deeply on deb vs rpm, it is kinda disappointing that we have this split, and I don't know if there's a great way to merge it back. Mac does have a good distribution story. This also exists on Linux in the form of app images. The one missing piece is that Mac has the Applications convention. AppImageLauncher[0] solves this, but really it would be good for Gnome/KDE to just integrate this concept. That gives the (important!) "have the application show up in the application launcher" option. I do not believe one could qualify Windows programs as being distributed as a single binary. A single installer, perhaps! But many Windows programs dump files all over

> there is no built-in way to trivially install a .desktop file for a given AppImage I've downloaded Here it is.[0,1] [0] https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher [1] https://docs.appimage.org/reference/desktop-integration.html

For reference, what whatatita is talking about is at: https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher/releases ;)

I posted this above, but at least for me, this project seems to do the trick: https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher I did use a terminal to install the AUR package on my system, however. ;)

This solves this problem for me quite well: https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher It asks whether an AppImage should be integrated (with .desktop files, etc.) upon launching one and does everything automatically, even on my system running Arch+i3 where I except little to work automatically.