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rename: the docs say Inkwell, and nothing else still says ThoughtSync by accident
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>
2026-10-06 14:35:02 -04:00

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# 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
```sh
cd desktop/src-tauri && cargo tauri dev
```
`beforeDevCommand` starts the Vite dev server (port 5173) in `../frontend`.
## Build (Linux)
```sh
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).