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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Hobbyware WinCrap 11 strikes again
Date: 12 Feb 2025 03:09:02 GMT
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On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:47:14 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:

> On 2025-02-11 3:49 p.m., rbowman wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:51:59 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm not sure why they bothered making Flatpaks and Snaps when
>>> AppImages work pretty much everywhere. I mean, how can you beat
>>> something which requires nothing more than for you to make it
>>> executable?
>> 
>> https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/blob/master/src/appimaged/
>> README.md
>> 
>> appimaged is handy as it will search for AppImages, extract the icons,
>> and have them show up on menus and taskbars.
> 
> Ah, that's exactly the kind of application I was looking for. I was
> annoyed that the AppImage for my cloud provider didn't provide an icon.

Supposedly, at least on Ubuntu, you can extract the AppRun directory to 
squashfs-root, copy the whole mess to /opt, find the icon in the mess, 
handcraft a xxxx.desktop in /usr/share/applications pointing to the AppRun 
and icon, and then reload the desktop database. It never worked for me. 

appimaged found the app and now I have icons for both Arduino IDE v1 and 
V2 on the taskbar. V1 is a circle and v2 is a square with rounded corners 
but I can live with that. 

I've only got the one AppImage but it supposedly will find all and any.