Currently, AppImageLauncher uses Applications directory to contain AppImages. However, this isn't a standard that recognized by other apps. Applications folder name is hard-coded and doesn't support localization, e.g. 应用 in Chinese.
So I created a MR to freedesktop.org to support Applications directory in XDG:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-user-dirs/-/merge_requests/27
Hopefully, all AppImage stores and utilities will use same directory to keep AppImages.
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Thank you @guoyunhe. Please ping me once it is merged in XDG.
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I second this. I would like this to be standardized. Good luck with your MR.
(Side note: why does one have to sign up and log in to see this MR... Edit: doesn't seem to be necessary now...)
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Another idea, not sure how easily possible it is: It would be just as helpful to also have some XDG_APPLICATION_DIRS or similar which tools like appimagelauncherd and appimaged could search to find applications to be integrated. I would still use the main dir as a target dir with AppImageLauncher, though.