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Step 6 of milestone 481. README, docs/*, ci-requirements.md, the desktop and Arch READMEs, alembic.ini, .gitignore, the frontend package name, the service worker's cache name (its activate handler deletes any cache by another name, so the old one is cleaned up), and the Android names in the release body. What still says thoughtsync does so on purpose (Scribe note 5071): - the desktop data crossover (crossover.rs) and its startup log - the old-export import marker - the "Upgrading from ThoughtSync" block in .env.example, and compose's pointer to it - the packages being retired: deb conflicts/replaces thought-sync, pacman thoughtsync and thoughtsync-desktop - the Android signing keyAlias, which names a key in the existing keystore - history: shipped alembic migrations, and the test-binary hashes that ci-requirements.md records from 2026-08-18 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Inkwell desktop (Tauri v2)
Local-first desktop client. The window loads the shared Vue 3 frontend from
../frontend; the Rust core (src-tauri) owns the on-device store and the opt-in
sync engine (built out across the M10 milestone). Works fully offline; optionally
syncs to a self-hosted Inkwell server.
Layout
desktop/
src-tauri/
Cargo.toml
build.rs
tauri.conf.json # frontendDist -> ../../frontend/dist, devUrl :5173
capabilities/default.json
src/
main.rs # thin shim -> lib::run()
lib.rs # tauri::Builder entry point
The Vue frontend is the sibling ../frontend package, shared with the web
build. On desktop it is backed by a local data source via
frontend/src/adapters/ (M10.3) instead of the server REST API. frontend and
src-tauri are siblings, not nested, so the beforeDev/beforeBuild
commands cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/frontend" to resolve regardless of
the CLI's working directory.
Prerequisites
The toolchain (Rust + Node + WebKitGTK 4.1 + tauri-cli) is provided by the
ci-tauri CI image. For local dev: install Rust + Node, cargo install tauri-cli,
and the Tauri v2 Linux system deps — see CI-tauri/Dockerfile in the CI-runner
repo for the exact apt list (libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev, libgtk-3-dev, librsvg2-dev,
libayatana-appindicator3-dev, libxdo-dev, patchelf, ...).
Dev
cd desktop/src-tauri && cargo tauri dev
beforeDevCommand starts the Vite dev server (port 5173) in ../frontend.
Build (Linux)
cd desktop/src-tauri && cargo tauri build # -> .deb + .AppImage
App icons are generated and committed: python3 packaging/icons.py draws the
inkwell mark once and renders every web, desktop and Android icon from it,
including app-icon.png and icons/*.png here. The Windows lane derives its
.ico from app-icon.png with cargo tauri icon at build time. Bundle targets:
deb, appimage (Linux-first; Windows/macOS later, no code changes expected).
Status
Scaffold (M10.2): boots the shared Vue UI in a native window. Until the local data
adapter lands (M10.3 + M10.5) the app has no server configured, so it shows the
login screen without a working backend — full offline functionality arrives with
the local SQLite store (M10.4) + adapters/local.ts (M10.5).