SteveBaker

The idea is that developers provide BOTH an appimage (for short term convenience) and a repository version for stable builds for long-term users. So you could still have multiple appimages if you need that.

There were .apt builds available up to CURA 3.1.0 - but evidently, that's where it stopped. * https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-i-have-a-problem-with-appimages-on-linux/ * https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/kevz58/isnt_appimage_just_as_bad_as_an_exe/ But I guess CURA is open-sourced, so all that's really needed is for someone out in the community to build a version and throw it into a repository someplace.

Manually moving the slider helps - but it's not ideal. A "10x" button would probably be OK - but a general speed control would be most useful.

I see that CURA for Linux is now only available by downloading an "appimage" file. I know that this is very convenient for you guys as software developers - but your decision has some drastic implications. AppImage is designed to be only ONE way to get Linux packages - typically something someone uses when they just want to try something out without actually installing it. For long term use, it's a disaster. Linux systems use "package managers" - I'm using Ubuntu and the "apt" system...but the "deb" system is OK too. The problem is that Linux users have an expectation that their system will be kept up to date with the latest versions of software automatically. I have several dozen large applications like yours - and there is no way I'm going out and updating all of them manually ever couple of weeks by going to a bunch of websites and downloading a bunch of appimage files. I just say "sudo apt update" / "sudo apt upgrade" and everything is at the latest revision. Cura 3.1.0 is the latest version in public repositories - so if I leave my package manager to handle it - I'm stuck on that revision. Using appimage as the only means to get new versions is also dangerous. You depend on a lot of other libraries and such that are stored within the appimage. If one of those has a security issue or some other major problem - it's not going to get updated in a timely manner - and THAT means the CURA could be the source of security issues in the future. Using apt to upgrade things means that library fixes get update as soon as they possibly can. So - **PLEASE** make the necessary ".dep" and apt installer files for the major Linux repositories to mirror...because otherwise the vast majority of Linux users will be stuck on CURA 3.1.0 forever - which is not good for anyone.