bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5
fe6f0746b2
Step 3 of milestone 481 (Scribe note 5071: a full rename).
- crates thoughtsync-{core,desktop,ffi,uniffi-bindgen} → inkwell-*, the
Cargo.lock entries moved to match (checked with `cargo metadata --locked`)
- Tauri: productName "Inkwell", identifier com.fabledsword.inkwell, binary
`inkwell`, updater feed on bvandeusen/inkwell, store file inkwell.db
- client agent inkwell-desktop, headers X-Inkwell-Client/-Protocol (the server
reads neither), capture event inkwell://captured, display-version env
- .deb: conflicts + replaces thought-sync, so the updater's install retires the
old package instead of colliding on it. kebab-case("Inkwell") is `inkwell`, so
the package name finally matches the command and verify.sh now asserts it
- pacman: inkwell, conflicting with and replacing thoughtsync and
thoughtsync-desktop
- AppImage ~/Applications/Inkwell.AppImage, menu entry inkwell.desktop,
installer, release titles, desktop asset names in fetch-clients.sh
The one shim, chosen by the operator because it is the only copy of a
local-first user's notes: crossover.rs moves the old
com.fabledsword.thoughtsync app-data dir's contents into the new one on startup,
before the store opens, renaming thoughtsync.db and its -wal/-shm with it. It
skips when the new dir already has a store, and anything already in the new dir
wins (the installer writes its channel marker there first). Tested.
Android's Kotlin side (package, applicationId, uniffi class) is step 4. Its
release asset names stay thoughtsync.* until then.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ThoughtSync desktop — Arch package
A prebuilt native pacman package, published as an asset on every ThoughtSync release. Nothing to compile, no toolchain to install.
Installing natively on Arch matters for more than tidiness: pacman pulls
webkit2gtk-4.1 itself and the app runs against your system's graphics stack,
which is what keeps the bundled-library EGL_BAD_PARAMETER black window
(issue 2021) from coming back. It also means the app is package-manager tracked
and uninstalls cleanly.
Install
Easiest — the one-command installer picks this package automatically on any pacman system:
curl -fsSL https://git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/thoughtsync/raw/branch/dev/desktop/packaging/install.sh | sh
That installs the newest build from main. To follow the rolling development
channel instead, pass the flag through the pipe:
curl -fsSL https://git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/thoughtsync/raw/branch/dev/desktop/packaging/install.sh | sh -s -- --channel dev
Or grab the .pkg.tar.* from the
releases page
and install it directly:
sudo pacman -U thoughtsync-*-x86_64.pkg.tar.*
The compression suffix depends on what the build image provides — .zst when
zstd is installed, otherwise .xz (today's builds are .xz). pacman reads
all of them; only the filename differs.
Either way you get:
/usr/bin/thoughtsync— the app/usr/share/applications/thoughtsync.desktop— the menu entry/usr/share/icons/hicolor/*/apps/thoughtsync.png— themed icons
Launch ThoughtSync from your app menu, or run thoughtsync.
Uninstall: sudo pacman -R thoughtsync.
The package was called thoughtsync-desktop before; it declares replaces/
conflicts on that name, so an upgrade from it is a normal pacman -U and
leaves nothing behind.
How the package is built
package-prebuilt.sh runs in CI (.forgejo/workflows/desktop.yml) and wraps the
binary the Linux build already produced into a pacman package — it does not
compile anything a second time.
Packaging a Debian-compiled binary for Arch is safe here because the binary
bundles nothing: it resolves libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so.0, libgtk-3.so.0 and
libsoup-3.0.so.0 by SONAME at runtime and those are identical on both distros,
SQLite is compiled in (rusqlite "bundled"), and glibc's forward compatibility
means building on Debian's older glibc and running on Arch's newer one is the
safe direction.
CI is Debian and has no pacman, so it cannot install-test the result. The build
step instead logs the package's .PKGINFO and complete file listing, so the
package is auditable from the run log; a real pacman -U is the final proof.
Previously
This directory used to hold a source-build PKGBUILD requiring makepkg -si
with rust + nodejs + npm installed. It was removed once prebuilt packages
shipped — asking every user to install a compiler toolchain isn't distribution.