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AppImage thumbnailer gets PPA

We’re big fans of the AppImage project – the distro-agnostic application packaging method that allows applications to run on any distribution with no installation required – so we’re thrilled to learn that ‘App Thumbnailer’ – which takes the standard ‘file’ image (a purple diamond shaped icon, see below) and replaces it with an application icon [...]

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Display AppImage Icons OS X Style

We’re big fans of the AppImage project – the distro-agnostic application packaging method that allows applications to run with no installation required – so we’re stoked to see the following project by George Dumitrescu adding to it. ‘App Thumbnailer’ takes the standard ‘file’ image (a purple diamond shaped icon, see below) and replaces it with [...]

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Distro Agnostic packaging: Making AppImages

Welcome to the world of Distro agnostic application packaging thanks to the ‘1 app = 1 file’ AppImage initiative from the Elementary-Project. Yesterday we waxed lyrical about the ‘portability’ factor of AppImages – the one-click self-contained applications that can run from any location and on any distribution. Today we’re going to look a bit deeper [...]

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