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icon: Inkwell's mark is a black inkpot and quill on the brand yellow
Step 5 of milestone 481. Replaces the linked-notes constellation, which had been
stale since note links were dropped (alembic 0024). The colour scheme stays.

packaging/icons.py draws the mark once and renders every variant from it: the
rounded tile (web, desktop), the maskable full-bleed web icon, and the Android
adaptive foreground. The detail (shaft, vane splits, glint) is cut out of the ink
with a mask rather than painted on in yellow, because the Android foreground is
now transparent and its alpha is also the themed-icon silhouette. The old
foreground was the opaque maskable tile, which a themed icon would have drawn as
a solid square.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 14:30:51 -04:00

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ThoughtSync 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 ThoughtSync 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).