Add automated checks for desktop app runtime #233

- Add automation script for building, packaging, installing, executing
  and verifying Electron distrubtions across macOS, Ubuntu and Windows.
- Add GitHub workflow to run the script to test distributions using the
  script.
- Update README with new workflow status badge.
- Add application initialization log to desktop applications to be able
  to test against crashes before application initialization.

scripts/check-desktop-runtime-errors/app/extractors/linux.js

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+import { access, chmod } from 'fs/promises';
+import { constants } from 'fs';
+import { findSingleFileByExtension } from '../../utils/io.js';
+import { log } from '../../utils/log.js';
+
+export async function prepareLinuxApp(desktopDistPath) {
+  const { absolutePath: appFile } = await findSingleFileByExtension(
+    'AppImage',
+    desktopDistPath,
+  );
+  await makeExecutable(appFile);
+  return {
+    appExecutablePath: appFile,
+  };
+}
+
+async function makeExecutable(appFile) {
+  if (!appFile) { throw new Error('missing file'); }
+  if (await isExecutable(appFile)) {
+    log('AppImage is already executable.');
+    return;
+  }
+  log('Making it executable...');
+  await chmod(appFile, 0o755);
+}
+
+async function isExecutable(file) {
+  try {
+    await access(file, constants.X_OK);
+    return true;
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+}