Running appimages with a stable command (stable path)

[ColinMaudry]

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Feature description

AIL changes the names of the appimage files everytime they are updated. One consequence is that it is not possible to reliably have an appimage running at startup, for instance by adding a command in the Startup Applications program in Ubuntu. It's also impossible to reliably run an appimage from a script.

AIL also seems to change the name of the .desktop files, these cannot be target either.

Could it be possible to have, for each appimage, a stable path that can be executed?

Proposed solution

Simlinks could be used as proxies to the appimages. These simlinks would be updated when the app is updates, but the name of the simlink would be stable.

Alternative solutions you considered

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Additional context

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