FUSE filesystem instead of copying around desktop files

[probonopd]

Right now we are copying desktop files (and other similar files, such as icons) into the running system when applications are integrated.

This has the downside that in case appimaged is killed/removed from the system, those extraneous files are not removed from the system.

If we would use a FUSE-mounted filesystem for those, then if the process that mounts the FUSE filesystem got killed, those files would magically disappear. Also we would not have to copy anything anywhere, which I think would be much cleaner and nicer.

[probonopd]

https://godoc.org/github.com/hanwen/go-fuse/fs

[probonopd]

Maybe even better?
https://github.com/bazil/fuse

It is a from-scratch implementation of the kernel-userspace communication protocol, and does not use the C library from the project called FUSE.

Example in use:
https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2014/fuse-zipfs/

[probonopd]

https://github.com/jacobsa/fuse

[grahamperrin]

I sort of don't care how it's done, but generally, with a passion:

… instead of copying around …

Yes. Oh, yes.