Change how clicking apps work about linuxappstore HOT 5 CLOSED

Note that not for all AppImages we have a direct download link. In this case, you could link e.g., to the https://appimage.github.io/SonicVisualiser/ (just as an example). We hope to add more download links in the future.

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@probonopd Thanks for the info. Yeah I think I'll do that for now. Quick question for you though. What happens if 2 people create an AppImage with the same name? How would it be displayed on appimage.github.io?

Author A creates an AppImage named SonicVisualiser
Author B creates an AppImage named SonicVisualiser

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The one from the official author would "win". We are over 800 apps now and never have had such a situation though.

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@probonopd Ok, so another question I have is. Can I get a new property e.g "id" to the feed here for each app that will uniquely identify them? Can be a GUID or auto incremented id. Basically like a primary key in a relational db. If a user can request changing the name of their app. Then I would need a way to determine if the app they changed is still the same app or else I'll get duplicates in my database. Snaps use a GUID "snap_id" See here, flatpaks use the package name. "flatpakAppId". See here

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We use the names of the files in https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io/tree/master/data as our identifiers; if an application is renamed then it will not appear in the feed under the old identifier anymore.

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