Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Linux AppImages Have Annoying Usability Issues" video.

  1. Perhaps, but he is right, it's just a matter of drop into place and double click. Or if you set your system to do single click and put them on your desktop, easier still. Or if you're into the keyboard, set a shortcut key to launch it.
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  2. I get what you mean, but the AppImage "flaw" of not setting a desktop entry could be fixed with any of a million simple methods. I might go with the program itself setting one, or if you want to prevent it from automatically writing to your system a shell script would work. I still haven't bothered to look into why FlatPak won't run on my system, hopefully it's not a dependence on something systemD related, but every AppImage I've used works and if I want it in the menu as opposed to starting it directly from the terminal I'll create the entry myself if I need to. However, I would say for newbies, it would be a good idea for them to add something so that a desktop entry is created automatically.
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  3.  @socvirnylestela5878  It's not like a desktop entry is some super difficult thing to provide. Heck, they could even just give you one with the app and have you manually copy it where needed, but a short shell script that you keep around and could drag and drop an AppImage to so it could create one and chmod +x it, would not be inefficient.
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