Allow the Linux CI to produce AppImages #440
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Adds the necessary files for the building of the AppImage (
.desktop
and the icon files) and makes changes to the CI workflow that allows it to produce AppImages vialinuxdeploy
(though the workflow retains its ability to produce a non-AppImage binary, and still uses its tar.gz for releases).The AppStream,
.desktop
and icon files also allow the Flatpak request (described in #393) to be closer to fulfilled, with only the change to themain.cpp
still needed to be done.