Create a App Launcher and Desktop Shortcut for FreeCAD AppImage on Linux
An AppImage is a portable compressed linux application file which is mounted at the point of execution. It's main aims is to allow the application to be deployed in a simple self contained way. Allowing compatibility across the many linux distros, it requires no installation or root permission. The underlying operating system is left untouched though configuration settings and target folders can reside outside the distribution. Appimages allow for the FreeCAD ecosystem to be more flexibile. A designer can download the latest development version without worrying about installing and destroying an installed stable version. Different versions and development paths of FreeCAD can be trialed (i.e. Link stage 3) and FreeCAD can always be kept on a USB stick, ready at hand for use on any linux distro. If you are using a Linux based system such as Ubuntu then you probably are using the AppImage for FreeCAD. For ages I was locating the downloaded AppImage in my downloads directory and