Please provide a CuteMarkEd AppImage

[probonopd]

Providing an AppImage would have, among others, these advantages:

• Applications packaged as an AppImage can run on many distributions (including Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, elementaryOS, Linux Mint, and others)
• One app = one file = super simple for users: just download one AppImage file, make it executable, and run
• No unpacking or installation necessary
• No root needed
• No system libraries changed
• Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed
• Optional desktop integration with appimaged
• Optional binary delta updates, e.g., for continuous builds (only download the binary diff) using AppImageUpdate
• Can optionally GPG2-sign your AppImages (inside the file)
• Works on Live ISOs
• Can use the same AppImages when dual-booting multiple distributions
• Can be listed in the AppImageHub central directory of available AppImages

For Qt based applications like CuteMarkEd that are already being built on Travis CI, it is especially easy to provide AppImages using the linuxdeployqt tool. There are many examples for builds using linuxdeployqt on Travis CI at https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt#using-linuxdeployqt-with-travis-ci.

Here is an overview of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.

If you have questions, AppImage developers are on #AppImage on irc.freenode.net and are always happy to help.

[probonopd]

Or, as someone with the same name as @cloose summarized 12 years ago,

a) You want to try-out a new version of an application without removing the current installation. b) You want to try-out a new application but you want to make sure that you can remove it cleanly without disturbing the rest of the system. c) You are on a multi-user machine and really want to use this one application that the sysadmin doesn't care about. :)