(Proper) AppImage support

[kenderipa]

Hello, is it possible to deepen AppImage support? Right now bin can download AppImages, but for proper AppImage intergation an icon (if available) and a .desktop entry should be extracted. Also, I'm not sure how bin would handle AppImage updates right now.

Thanks!

[marcosnils]

that'd be nice. Do you have an example repo which has an AppImage with .desktop files?

Where do .desktop files should generally be extracted to? Is there a commonly used pattern for that?

[kenderipa]

that'd be nice. Do you have an example repo which has an AppImage with .desktop files?

Well, all of them :) For example: https://github.com/whoozle/android-file-transfer-linux

Both icon and .desktop file are inside the AppImage and need to be extracted. Some AppImages don't have an icon.

Where do .desktop files should generally be extracted to? Is there a commonly used pattern for that?

I'm not sure, never read the specifiation myself. However, zap that I was using before had created two folders, ~/appimage/icons and ~/appimage/desktop, while I have chosen ~/appimage for AppImages themselves.

[nattadasu]

Where do .desktop files should generally be extracted to? Is there a commonly used pattern for that?

There is actually, you can read brief information here instead: https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM#how-are-apps-installed

Here's another app that use AppImage mainly as well to test it:

• https://github.com/kawaiiDango/pano-scrobbler