apps with icase AppImage are not listed

[wesskywalker]

Current version:

% flatpak list:
AppImage Pool	io.github.prateekmedia.appimagepool	4.9.0	stable	system

About the App dialog displays V 4.9.9.
Some apps don't use the extension .AppImage, but they would rather user .appImage, .Appimage, .appimage or any other upper/lowercase combination.
No idea if this is canonical but it's what is happening.
Examples with avidemux:

• https://www.appimagehub.com/p/1238389
• https://github.com/mean00/avidemux2/releases
• https://sourceforge.net/p/avidemux/bugs/111/

Other software like appimagelauncherd use case insensitive so read whatever.

[prateekmedia]

I don't think so, if the app is not available in github then we don't have a way to get it.

[wesskywalker]

Probably you are misunderstanding what I mean.
Download this file: https://github.com/mean00/avidemux2/releases/download/2.8.0/avidemux_2.8.0.appImage and place it inside $HOME/Applications. It will not be detected by appimagepool.

[wesskywalker]

Use this:

wget https://github.com/mean00/avidemux2/releases/download/2.8.0/avidemux_2.8.0.appImage -O $HOME/Applications/avidemux_2.8.0.appImage

[prateekmedia]

Make it executable using
chmod +x whatever

[prateekmedia]

I will try this appimage once I am on my PC

[wesskywalker]

I don't think it's related to exec permission.

[lfom]

This still happens in v5.1.0. I was looking for a simple app to integrate downloaded AppImage files with the DE and found this issue. Readme says AppImagePool can manage integration but there is no option to open/import the files, the user must first copy the file to default download path, that curiously is ~/Applications instead of ~/Download.

Anyway it seems that it only detects files that end in .AppImage, ignoring anything else with the same extension but diffrence case. It is not related to file permssions.

[prateekmedia]

You can Infact change directory of AppImages but no systemwide auto appimage detect is possible for now.

[lfom]

You can Infact change directory of AppImages but no systemwide auto appimage detect is possible for now.

Thank you for your quick reply. The default directory is not a big deal in my opinio (I will open a new issue about adding a feature so the user can open AppImage files from anywhere, what I think will improve the user experience).

What I think is more important is to fix the auto-detection of files with any extension, what seems to be broken as of now, at least in the latest release version:

• .AppImage (works)
• .appimage (is not detected)
• .appImage (is not detected)
• .Appimage (is not detected)

Cheers