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Probably those are better suited, but I was looking for something very straight-forward and the description there was not something like copy & paste solution, it implied more reading, and after seeing that Alacritty included the desktop file I thought it was way easier to just type a few lines in a text file instead of reading documentation and installing another thing in my system.
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beekeeper-studio
Modern and easy to use SQL client for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, and more. Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
As I mentioned above, there is a full specification, but for the sake of learning, I'll show here the file I created for Beekeeper Studio:
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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AppImageKit
Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat
There are at least three ways of distributing applications in Linux: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap. Each one of these have different advantages and disadvantages but often it is not that important as a user since the format to use is a decision to be taken by the developer. Some applications already take care of this step for you, in case they don't keep reading, in this post I will show you a way to configure AppImage applications to be available from your desktop.
