AppImageKit roadmap

Volunteers wanted for the following topics. Feel free to send a PR that adds your name to list item(s).

Downloading appimages from some kind of software catalog websites and app centers

Define formal AppImage spec (probonopd) DRAFTED
Work on tool that lets one extract metadata like application name, author, license, etc. from an AppImage hosted somewhere without having to download it (think "Google for AppImages") BEING WORKED ON
Get AppImage downloads into KDE Discover
Write GNOME Software plugin for AppImage

Running appimage and browsing its content via file roller/ark or any other archive tool

Follow up with upstream projects and/or send PRs
file-roller AUTHOR SILENT
ark DONE

Upgrading appimage via right click

Make zsync_curl use subsequent range requests rather than requesting multiple ranges at once; otherwise Akamai is broken DONE
Make AppImageUpdate not need the curl binary but expand zsync_curl to include the required curl functionality DONE
Possibly replace the AppImageUpdate bash script by C code, e.g., in zsync_curl
Qt GUI in addition to the Vala/GTK 3 one

Desktop integration

Resurrect appimaged (probonopd; contact me if you want to take this over) See this
Sandbox using firejail (see the sandbox GUI integration experiments in this repository)
Test/use GNOME portals

IDE/build tool integration

Someone familiar with Qt (= not me, probono) should have a deep look at http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qttools.git/tree/src/macdeployqt/ and see if the same can be done to generate an AppImage DONE