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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by rom-antics on Thursday February 23, 2023 @09:28PM (#34919980)
Right, it's just a binary. And if I'm installing an app, say Audacity, I would never go to GitHub and download the raw binary, because then I'd have to write the desktop file by hand, and also the app would never get updated when new versions are released. Instead I use a package manager or Flatpak.

How are people keeping their AppImages updated?

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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by edflsafoiewq on Thursday February 23, 2023 @10:02PM (#34920225)
I, on the other hand, want exactly that. I've never used a desktop file, and I want to control when and if I upgrade.
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by eviks on Friday February 24, 2023 @01:12AM (#34921441)
You can control when, if, and what, as a feature of a good package manager, no need to throw the baby of convenience with it
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday February 23, 2023 @10:42PM (#34920492)
If there had been an adopted standard for embedding icons in ELF, and if common Linux launchers had just been a menuized view of a folder structure, this would never have been a problem.

But Linux Desktop has a nasty habit of adopting over engineered solutions instead of simple ones, especially if any other desktop OS is doing it that way.

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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by mikae1 on Friday February 24, 2023 @01:18AM (#34921478)
> How are people keeping their AppImages updated?

The only software I run as an AppImage is BitWarden (from the official GitHub repo[1]. It prompts to update itself when there's a new version which works very well.

[1] https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/releases

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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by piaste on Friday February 24, 2023 @02:23AM (#34921887)
Bitwarden is also available as Flatpak now. In case "the only software I run as an AppImage" means that you would prefer another format.
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by swexbe on Friday February 24, 2023 @02:41AM (#34922013)
Seems a bit like going back to windows...
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