<div dir="auto">As an (advanced) Linux user, I see appimages are just like "portables" applications in Windows. They are not intended to replace installed applications. They are practical solutions to specific situations, so the user has the chance to decide if that's what he need or not for those situations.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For example, I have been using appimages of GIMP cause it was the simplest way to have in my system the 2.10 version. It was not the easier way to work with it, but for me to have it was a priority over commodity.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And for beta testing I think it's a great solution, instead wait to have it in repositories or to compile by ourselves.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Appimages are a great idea IMHO.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">El vie., 17 ago. 2018 21:41, Jono pollard <<a href="mailto:jono.pollard@gmail.com">jono.pollard@gmail.com</a>> escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Greetings,</span><div style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Love digikam but not thrilled with appimage. If I were a dev for digikam wouldn't waste more resources using that system. It isn't intuitive and leaves one wandering where to put the file and how to integrate it into their system. I'd rather use an older version through my distributions packaging system than have one random program use a completely obtuse system. That's what I'm going to do but I wanted to share the opinions of a regular digikam user. I get what appimage is about, but unless all of linux switches to installing programs this way, it ends up just being clunky.</div><div style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"></div><div style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Jono</div></div><br></div>
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