[digiKam-users] appimage

[Rafael Linux User]

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.

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.

And for beta testing I think it's a great solution, instead wait to have it
in repositories or to compile by ourselves.

Appimages are a great idea IMHO.

Regards

El vie., 17 ago. 2018 21:41, Jono pollard <jono.pollard at gmail.com> escribió:

> Greetings,
>
> 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.
>
> Jono
>
>
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