Associate AppImageLauncher with .AppImage files

[ernstki]

I did search the issue tracker, no mention of this.

It seems theoretically possible to have (the non-"lite" version of) AppImageLauncher take over the association of .AppImage files and just "do the right thing" when they're double-clicked. That is, prompt the user, then set the .AppImage file executable, then do the normal integration steps that AppImageLauncher is known for.

Curious why this isn't already the case. Was this option discussed/explored already?

I wasn't able to demo the non-lite version of AppImage without building from source (which I don't have time to do at the moment). So if AppImageLauncher already does this, my bad!

[TheAssassin]

The AppImageLauncher packages should already set up MIME integration just the way you'd like it to be.

Please run xdg-mime query default application/vnd.appimage and check if it reports appimagelauncher.desktop.

[ernstki]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind if I go back to using .AppImage versions of any apps in the future.

[TheAssassin]

Closing due to the lack of a response.