Hi Michael, > The "just run the console and do chmod +x <downloaded-file-name>" that > I see on their front-page is (I suspect) rather a bit of a usability > nightmare ;-) at least initially vs. say an app-store. Some 'technical' > people I know are impressed by command-line use ;-)
As you can set the executable bit from within your desktop environment[1], i wouldnt expect users to jump to the console in order to do so, especially users appimage is targeting, unless they were terminal junkies. :D [1] https://youtu.be/nzZ6Ikc7juw?t=1m16s > That seems reasonable. I guess it needs an active maintainer who fixes > problems with it - that is not Cloph =) is that you and/or Antonio ? Yes Antonio would be the maintainer. > I guess its useful to some people =) is there a central app-store / > location to find appimages ? Yep, i use it to run the latest VLC[2] and Krita[3] on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, without affecting the version that comes from the base system. As anyone can create and distribute an appimage, there isnt a central store for it, but i'd assume such a store will eventually be created in the future. The appimage author keeps a list of appimages he's aware of on a wiki, which i did link to in my previous email. Here it is again.[4] [2] https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages/VLC/3.0.0.git4ff2515.glibc2.17#files [3] http://www.davidrevoy.com/article322/krita-appimage-for-cats [4] https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/AppImages > Is Antonio in a better location for international calls ? Yes he works at Studio Storti with Marina. > Sounds reasonable to me to test this out as experimental for the 5.4.x > release and if it works well for 6.0. Sweet. > Thanks Jay & Antonio ! Thanks Michael. Regards, Yousuf _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
