[frmald]

Well, I guess we're offtopic, and I'm reacquainting myself to the pleasures of dealing with calibre's human interface. Thanks for the reminder.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

What a load of nonsense. The calibre installation includes desktop files. Do a proper installation instead of an isolated one and you will find them.

Ah, so an isolated install, which is the only way to get calibre to NOT make unknowable modifications to the filesystem (short of chroot / pbuilder / overlayfs or other expensive jailing options) is not a "proper installation"? Good to know.

I also particularly like this on the calibre install page: "You can uninstall calibre by running sudo calibre-uninstall. Alternately, simply deleting the installation directory will remove 99% of installed files"

Meaning, if my system hangs, or if there's a bug, I have to trust a non-distribution script to pick up its own trash, without any proper recourse to forcibly remove everything it "improved" on my system.

And distro packages are outdated only in outdated distros, and have to do with the distros' outdated packaging policies, not calibre's installation scripts.

The calibre site itself says "Please do not use your distribution provided calibre package, as those are often buggy/outdated. Instead use the Binary install described below". It sounds a bit different, doesn't it?

And yeah, I know I can run Debian testing / Sid / Ubuntu non-LTS (giving up maintainability and control over key system setup), or switch to Arch or Void or worse and give up the wealth of Debian packaging. No thanks.

And wget, with https + sh from upstream is FAR MORE secure than downloading some random dude on the internets repackaging of those binaries in random "application format" of the week. This wget + sh bad meme always makes me laugh.

I think appimage was around before all the other fads. And that's the point of providing a clean appimage recipe -- not having to trust some "random dude".