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Moving appimaged AppImage file makes everything useless

Open machitgarha opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

When I installed appimaged, it was located in my home (i.e. ~/). Then, for some reason, I moved it to somewhere else, e.g. ~/Downloads. This, unfortunately, makes (1) desktop files and (2) the daemon unusable, because the desktop files and daemon actions (e.g. systemctl --user restart appimaged.service) rely on the absolute path of appimaged determined at installation time.

Although it should not happen often, it confuses the user, as it no longer works correctly.

The only workaround should be reinstalling appimaged.

machitgarha avatar Mar 21 '21 18:03 machitgarha

Indeed. This is yet another point in case that illustrates that the concept of desktop files is insufficient. I don't know how to solve this.

A better approach would be for file managers to support AppImages natively, without the need for desktop files.

probonopd avatar Mar 21 '21 20:03 probonopd

In some way this can be considered a special case of #162, just that appimaged is also not capable of adjusting its own paths in the appimagekit_*.desktop files it manages.

almereyda avatar Aug 31 '21 11:08 almereyda