Comment by gilli
12 hours ago
I wish AppImage was slightly more user friendly and did not require the user to specifically make it executable.
12 hours ago
I wish AppImage was slightly more user friendly and did not require the user to specifically make it executable.
We fix this issue by distributing ours in a tar file with the executable bit set. Linux novices can just double click on the tar to exact it and double click again on the actual appimage.
Been doing it this way for years now, so it's well battle tested.
That kind of defeats the point of an AppImage though - you could just as well have a tar archive with a c classic collection of binaries + optional launcher script.