In the last weeks, Alexis Zubieta has been working on redesigning and refactoring AppImageLauncher. He’s invested a lot of time into restructuring the code base, designing new dialogs following the established workflow, and we’re almost ready to merge his changes.
[Read More]Introducing awesome-linuxdeploy
We’ve started a little project on GitHub that shall serve as a central directory of plugins for linuxdeploy. You can find the list on GitHub: https://github.com/linuxdeploy/awesome-linuxdeploy
Contributions welcome! Please don’t hesitate to send us pull requests adding new plugins or other linuxdeploy-related projects to the list.
Pext: new and improved AppImage
This weekend, among other things, I was working on improving the Pext AppImage. Sylvia and I were spending quite some hours on making the Pext AppImages smaller, more efficient and provide improved desktop integration. Also, AppImages are now built using linuxdeploy, the universal AppImage creation tool suite, using the conda plugin to set up everything Python related. That plugin was actually inspired by the experiences I made during all the months it took to make the first AppImage build script.
[Read More](New) AppImage documentation
The AppImage project has never had a proper documentation. Sure, there were (and still are!) some wikis (most notably the AppImageKit wiki), but wikis, especially the ones on GitHub, lack any sort of structure. Recently, I could finally start to work on this, resulting in the (fairly) brand new docs.appimage.org.
[Read More]New Blog
I decided to start a blog. It will contain announcements of projects I’m involved. Also, I might be posting about some recent topics or opinions. We’ll see.