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Read desktop files inside AppImages #27

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Remaining part from #26 (comment):

% chmod +x ~/Downloads/Telegram_Desktop-x86_64.AppImage 
% ~/Downloads/Telegram_Desktop-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-extract
% cat squashfs-root/telegram.desktop
(...)
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/tg;
(...)

So, when encountering an AppImage, then "the system" (I still need to decide which component) needs to place the link to ~/.local/share/launch/MIME/.../ based on the information in MimeType= in the .desktop file inside the AppImage. (This already happens for .desktop files which are not inside AppImages.)

Possibly we can use the new libsqsh library by @Gottox for this. It looks promising and is under a permissive license.

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