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Kurt Pfeifle edited this page Nov 22, 2017 · 5 revisions

As many excellent apps you may find in the AppImage format, you certainly will still miss personal favorites.

What should you do?

  1. First, please understand what the mission of this project IS and what it is NOT:

    • it develops AppImageKit, a collection of tools for application developers which enables them to create their OWN AppImages for end users ("upstream packaging");
    • it does not aim to create by its own a full set of software applications which are packed as AppImages;
    • in as far as we DO package AppImages, these are mainly done for demonstration purposes, and to showcase what our project can achieve for all users and developers who love the Linux world.
  2. Open feature requests with the respective upstream projects (example: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296568). Or - much better (if you are a developer and know how to do this) -- create pull requests that create an AppImage (example: https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/pull/161). Here is a template that you may use.

  3. Point them to linxudeployqt (especially its examples section) and the AppImage Wiki.

  4. Mention the AppImage project's willingness to help if they are running into any trouble.

As for the AppImage project, we do help interested upstream projects to create AppImages if they are running into trouble. Due to resource limitations, however, we cannot:

  • Support application end users wishing to convert an existing application into an AppImage if none of the application's developers themselves is interested in collaborating.
  • Create and maintain AppImages for application projects if none of the application's developers is interested in taking over AppImage maintainership. So if you desperately WANT an AppImage for your favorite software: convince its developers and contributors to provide one and maintain it!

PLEASE NOTE, one more time:

  1. We do not ourselves create AppImages en masse.
  2. We simply provide application developers with the tools to do so and we support them in creating AppImages.
  3. So if you would like an AppImage to be made for your favorite application, please ask the project that makes the application to provide an AppImage.

For reference, you may open your favorites in the list below, ideally with a link to the issue tracker where you opened an "AppImage" request with the respective application project.

Wishlist

Adding projects here and hoping that this will make AppImages magically appear will do nothing. Please be sure to read and understand the text above before adding applications here.

Name Done? Description Link to upstream issue or PR
Firefox Web browser, high demand for an AppImage https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296568 (please add a comment there if you are interested)
podofo CLI utils to process PDF files
ImageMagick CLI utils to process images https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/pull/858
MuPDF lean and fast PDF/EPUB/XPS/... viewer https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/mupdf/pull/4
mutool (by MuPDF) CLI utils to process PDF files
QPDF CLI tool to process PDF files
poppler-utils CLI utils to process PDF files
ippsample CLI utils to develop+test IPP Everywhere implementations
tabula (by TabulaPDF CLI util to extract tables as CSV from PDF files
GhostPDL CLI tools to generate and process PostScript, PCL and PDF files
htmldoc CLI tool to convert HTML docs to PostScript or PDF
epm CLI and GUI tool(s) to package software into many different established formats
rasterview viewer for 2 specific formats: CUPS-raster and PWG-raster (used for printing)
Blender 3D rendering software
Zathura lean and fast PDF and EPUB viewer
Pandoc CLI tool -- Swiss Army Knife for document format conversions
FontForge Font editing and processing application
asciinema Utility to record or replay work in the terminal (good for demos)