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It has. AppImages work exactly as a user would expect them to. Even if the AppImage is not marked as executable, one of the problems I can imagine a new user encountering, Dolphin (KDE file manager) asks if I want to trust and run the file anyways.

It is on Thunderbird for just distributing a weird tar file. Preferably, their download button would take you to an installation instructions page.

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And idea how to get Dolphin to "register" the AppImage as an application? (so it shows up in menus). Manually making AppImage .desktop files is always a bit clunk and you don't get the proper icons. I know there is some thrid party tool that does it more properly, but I wonder if there is an integrated way

I swear this used to work automatically and at some point it was removed.. or maybe I'm misremembering

Try this: https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

Oh cool, it's got a PPA and it nicely moves all the .appimage files to one application directory. Seems to work very well. Thank you!

The icons don't show up immediately in the KDE menus, but maybe that'll get reindexed after a reboot or something

Icons appeared on reboot :)

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