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Exactly. Design, to us, is also how it works. Not just how it looks. The "feel" part in "look and feel".

Gershwin is using the key next to the spacebar (whatever is written on it) as the Command key.

Should be doable to put a Rhapsody theme on it... GNUstep is very flexible in this regard. Thanks to Method Swizzling, themes can change things pretty substantially.

We are on it. The whole UI is going to be overhauled a lot. Would you like to help us get things in shape? AppearanceMetrics.h in gershwin-eau-theme is a start.

Definitely let's talk. You'll find us on GitHub Discussions and Libera Chat.

This is why we think something inspired by the HIG needs to be reborn as open source.

Is there anything XAR can do that AppImage cannot? There are very complex Python applications (e.g., Ultimaker Cura) which are packaged in the AppImage format as self-standing sing…

App availability makes or breaks every platform. App developers only release stuff for platforms with a large user base, and "Desktop Linux" as a whole is at a mere 2-3 percent at …

Yes, I started klik about a decade ago, over time evolved and simplified the concept and renamed it to AppImage. Thanks for calling it a "lone island of sanity in the ocean of bad …

AnIdiotOnTheNet, I couldn't agree more. Which is why I've started the AppImage project roughly a decade ago. Would you like to join, even if only as an evangelist? Please get in to…

And almost no one uses them. Or did you get your Photoshop in the Windows Store?

There's also this artificial distinction between the uninstalled and the installed form of the same software. Once you have installed it, it is married into a system that makes it …

AnIdiotOnTheNet, did you know the https://gitlab.com/probono/platformissues project? It is describing the Desktop Linux Platform Issues and what should be done to overcome them. I …

Systems like the Open Build Service can ease the pain a bit by building for different distributions and versions, but it is a pain nevertheless. Luckily the Open Build Service inst…

What we need is a clear separation between the Core OS a.k.a. base system which should be provided by every "Desktop Linux" distribution, and the rest. Applications should only use…

I think we need to distinguish between software that is used as a component in a larger system (e.g., the core OS for which is the core business of a distribution), and an applicat…

Since an AppImage is just a compressed filesystem, you can also extract its content very similar to a zip file. But you then will miss out on the easy binary delta updates using Ap…

An AppImage contains everything an app needs to run on most Linux systems. Just download one file, chmod +x, and run. No installation, no root, no unpacking, no repositories to be …

bubblewrap works for sandboxing AppImages: https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/152

Actually the sandbox used for Flatpak can also be used to run AppImages already now: https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/152

Depending on the scenario, an app packaged as an AppImage may launch as fast as or sometimes even faster (due to the compression) than an installed app. In most cases, there will n…

You shouldn't run "random binaries", but binaries from the original author of the software. E.g., Scribus from https://www.scribus.net/ or Subsurface from https://subsurface-divelo…

Well, this is what Linus had to say about packaging: "I've seen this firsthand with the other project I've been involved with, which is my divelog application. We make binaries for…

Well, the code is on https://github.com and my AppImages are on https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages - once https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156 is closed, appimage.org, to…