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As of right now if a user install helium with a package manager like soar or am the Exec on the .desktop file will be changed with the path to the executable and this messes up %U, making links not open properly. This pr fixes that.
Left: .desktop from --appimage-extract
Right: .desktop from helium installed via packages.toml which has; helium = { github = "imputnet/helium-linux", asset_pattern = "*x86_64.AppImage", version = "*" }
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[packaging] Remove sed for exec as it breaks links not opening if installed with appimage package managers
[packaging] Remove sed for exec as it breaks links not opening if installed with appimage package managers & add %U
Feb 11, 2026
Exec=AppRun to the desktop entry makes no sense, appimage itself doesn't do anyhting with it. All the appimage runtime does is execute the AppRun in the filesystem, you can in fact ship an appimage without a .desktop entry and it will work without issue, appimagetool doesn't allow it because it runs desktop-file-validate on it but that can be easily be bypassed.
Additionally tools like sharun or go-appimage parse the Exec= key in the desktop entry since they replace AppRun with their own generic implementation and need to know the name of the binary to launch.
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As of right now if a user install helium with a package manager like soar or am the Exec on the .desktop file will be changed with the path to the executable and this messes up %U, making links not open properly. This pr fixes that.
Left: .desktop from --appimage-extract
Right: .desktop from helium installed via packages.toml which has;
helium = { github = "imputnet/helium-linux", asset_pattern = "*x86_64.AppImage", version = "*" }