Re: Hobbyware WinCrap 11 strikes again

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.