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Well the mac style doesn't use any sort of archive (it uses folders with ".app" at the end of the name). AFAIK I don't think you can make Konqueror do something like that. What may work better is to go the OS X style and at the top of the folder do something like:

Create a file in the top director of the folder called ".directory" and in that file it says something like:You would name the icon file "icon.png" (I think this would work, but I don't know if Konqueror will do relative paths for the icons).

Maybe doing what OS X does and give the folder the extension ".app" and create a mime-type for it that will associate w/ all ".app" things which will launch a program that will then process some file in the app (maybe it will execute "./run.sh"?).

Oh and just so you know, when the binaries are linked it would be good if you set them up in a way that they can check if the libraries exist (preferably after it checks the normal places, so if locally you have it installed it can use that version and any bugfixes instead) in a path relative to them (I read once how to do it, hopefully you can find it on google with some searching). That way they can have their own libraries and use them if they don't exist on the local system.

Maybe also you could do some weird hackish stuff so it will chroot the program to it's ".app" folder so it will store all its local settings inside the .app file and you can have as many different version setup as you want. Though if they run in X you would have to do some stuff like set up a sym link so it can talk to X, and also so its runs as the current user, not root, in the chrooted folder.

Wow... that kinda went a bit longer than I planned to, good luck with your package manager!

For a single file you would need a MIME type association and some thumbnail plugin for Konqueror which would "create" the thumbnail by accessing the archive contents and reading the icon.

Cheers,
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