appimaged is broken

[probonopd]

As of

appimaged, continuous build (commit 2e34378), build 108 built on 2019-03-14 17:43:20 UTC

on xubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso

appimaged is currently so broken that if the issues don't resolve i will be forced to revert to pre-libappimage state two weeks from now, May 19. I am really annoyed that appimaged is deteriorating. It was a working, relative simple tool with few dependencies. Now it needs libappimage and seemingly the result is worse than before. Sorry if I sound harsh today, but appimaged is what I use every day and I cannot tolerate it being broken any longer.

References:

• ERROR: appimage_register_in_system : boost::filesystem::permissions: Operation not permitted libappimage#101
• ERROR: appimage_get_type : Unknown AppImage format libappimage#102
• AppImages on <mntpoint>/Applications have no thumbnails libappimage#103
• Please remove or make explicit the dependency on libgobject, libcairo, librsvg libappimage#104 (comment)

I am not entirely sure in all cases whether the issue is in libappimage or appimaged or the combination of the two, but since nothing substantial has changed in appimaged and these issues have not been there before, I am boldly assuming that libappimage has some part in those issues.

[probonopd]

Possibly #78 could be used as a workaround to meet the deadline for for #104 but the rest still has to be fixed.

[probonopd]

Workaround has been implemented for now so at least it does something again.

[probonopd]

Workaround is incomplete; it does not work for recent versions of Fedora and possibly other distributions. See #82.

[probonopd]

Deadline is approaching.

[probonopd]

Workaround been determined to be inappropriate.

[azubieta]

All issues seems to be fixed. They were tested on the scenarios reported as broken.
Will close the issue, please reopen if required.

[probonopd]

Thanks @azubieta, unfortunately the icons are broken in the menu, please see #88

[probonopd]

Actually more is broken than just the icons, #88