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by app4soft 1801 days ago
> but it does have its own system menus, icon,

Desktop files (on Linux & Windows) are just nothing than a text file with description/meta info and a link to local executable or any other sort of file* - that is NOT related in any way to executable at all.

> it's directly executable by the OS.

Because it is browser (Chromium) with a custom browser-extension by design.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)