AppImanager - Create and manage .desktop entry
for your AppImages or any Executables.

A Cli tool to quickly add your AppImage (or anything checked as executables) to the Applications menu of your desktop environment by generating a .desktop file as an entry.

Simple, yet has many customizable options for the sake of convenience.

Installation

Cargo is required to run this app. After installed cargo, run:

cargo install appimanager

Usage

A simple cli to create and manage desktop entries from executables

Usage: appimanager [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

Commands:
  add     Generate .desktop file
  list    List .desktop files 
  delete  Delete .desktop file by index (displayed by list subcommand) 
  help    Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -d, --dest-dir <DEST_DIR>  Destination path that store all .desktop files  (default=~/.local/share/applications)
  -h, --help                 Print help
  -V, --version              Print version

Examples: 
1. appimanager add myfile.AppImage 

-m: move executable to a path before generating .desktop file   
-n: name property of to be generated .desktop file 
-i: icon (path) property of to be generated .desktop file 
 

2. appimanager list 

3. appimanager delete 0 // note: .desktop index starts from 0 

4. set custom directory of desktop files instead of ~/.local/share/applications (not recommended)  

appimanager -d /path/here/ add myfile.AppImage //create myfile.desktop in /path/here/
appimanager -d /path/here/ list //list .desktop in /path/here
appimanager -d /path/here/ delete 0 //delete index 0 .desktop in /path/here

Build from source

Steps:

git clone https: //github.com/khuongduy354/appimanager.git 
cd appimanager  
cargo run //to build and run 
cargo build //to build only
cargo test //to test

Additional things:

• justfile (Makefile alternatives) to help automate stuffs (you need just to run it)
• personal.md docs my learning stuffs

Contributing

• I really need mentoring on: app features, Rust best practices, implementations, or structures of the app. I'd be very appreciate if anyone could give any sort of guidances.
• Feels free to raise issues and suggest features.
• Don't forget to leave a star!

Notes

• For cargo: i published a crate called appim before, which is also the previous name of this repo, then i realized that not only AppImage is executable :) , this crate changes a bit, more features and has test coverage.