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helloSystem / Filer

A file manager that can also render the desktop
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Wrapper AppDirs are indistinguishable from full AppDirs #81

Open ghost opened 3 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

The problem is that a user will think they are copying the current version of an application to another location to save it, or might want to copy it to a machine with no network connection.

Can we draw something on the icon automatically in Filer if the main executable is a link to a binary outside the AppDir?

probonopd commented 3 years ago

Yes, I think this is what "Emblems" are for. Like the little arrow for symlinks:

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We could think about a similar symbol for wrapper AppDirs.