Linuxdeployqt and displaying my icon

[cgarry]

Type 2 is the most current version of AppImage and is produced by the appimagetool and linuxdeployqt tools rather than the original AppImageAssistant tool. This thread describes Type 2 AppImages:

The future of AppImage: Type 2 and new tools

Experimenting with squashfs instead of ISO9660. Switching from zisofs to squashfs would: Significantly save space, up to 45% (e.g., 121 MB rather than 218 MB for QtCreator-5.7.0-x86_64.AppImage when using a 1 MB block size with -comp xz -b 1M but that makes application launches of large apps noticeably slower); or 27% (159 MB rather than 218 MB) with great performance using default gzip2 compression Allow us to use less arcane generation tools, i.e., mksquashfs instead of xorriso Significantl…