The app answered to three different names depending on how it arrived, and the
part that actually hurt was WM_CLASS. Reading tauri-bundler settles what it is:
the generated .desktop template writes StartupWMClass={{exec}} where exec is
main_binary_name, and tao creates its GtkApplication with a NULL app id
(enableGTKAppId defaults off), so GTK falls back to the program name. WM_CLASS
is the binary name, nothing else.
Which inverts this issue's premise. The rename could not break grouping,
because two channels weren't grouping in the first place: pacman ships
/usr/bin/thoughtsync and the AppImage's AppRun execs thoughtsync-desktop, while
all three hand-written entries hardcoded StartupWMClass=ThoughtSync — a string
no binary in any channel has ever reported. Only the .deb worked, and only
because Tauri generates its entry from the binary and never consulted us.
So: thoughtsync everywhere, carried by the build target itself via Cargo [[bin]]
plus mainBinaryName rather than by the install path, since the target name is
what the desktop reads. The pacman package sheds its -desktop suffix and
declares conflict+replaces so an upgrade retires the old one instead of landing
beside it and fighting over /usr/bin/thoughtsync.
The .deb verifier now asserts binary path, Exec and StartupWMClass all agree,
which is the part that keeps this fixed: the .deb's entry is the one no human
writes, so it's the one that drifts silently.
Package: thought-sync stays. tauri-bundler derives it as kebab-case(productName)
with no override, and rewriting a control archive on every build is a poor trade
for one uninstall command.
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install.sh asked /releases/latest and installed whatever came back. That is
v0.1.0 today, which predates the updater, and it was about to get worse: the
`stable` pointer release write-manifest.sh creates is non-prerelease and holds
only latest.json, so from the next v* tag onward it would have WON
/releases/latest and the installer would have found nothing to install.
So resolve a channel instead of a "latest". `--channel stable|dev` (or
TS_CHANNEL), default stable, named to match update.rs's Channel exactly. dev
reads /releases/tags/dev. stable reads the pointer's own latest.json, takes its
version, and installs that v* release — the same file the app reads, so the
installer and the updater cannot disagree about what stable means.
Two things found on the way. The dev release's description still told people to
run the stable command, and always would have: publish-release.sh writes a body
only when it CREATES a release, and a fixed-tag release is only created once, so
the text froze at the first build. The 409 path now PATCHes it. And the asset
greps were unanchored, so a .AppImage.sig URL could match as the bundle URL —
harmless by coincidence, not by construction.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MKsUY9Z45KQd34V956hZ9Q
Follow-up to 8a8b2b1, driven by what run 2872's new checks actually printed.
The .deb verification did its job on its first run: tauri already infers
exactly libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 + libgtk-3-0, so declaring the same two in
tauri.conf.json produced a control file listing each of them twice. Removed
the declaration — verify.sh is the real guard, and it fails the build if
inference ever stops covering what the binary links.
The pacman step revealed ci-tauri carries neither zstd nor bsdtar, so packages
currently ship as .pkg.tar.xz with no .MTREE. Both are working outcomes
(pacman reads xz; only `pacman -Qkk` needs .MTREE), but the docs promised
.zst, so the README, the release notes and ci-requirements.md now describe
what the build actually produces.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SreJkbxB4gx8pPsu8QbLPi
Native packages the installer can actually fetch, before task 2014 wires up
the fetching.
Arch (task 2022, re-scoped): the source PKGBUILD is gone — asking every user
to install rust+node and compile for minutes isn't distribution. Replaced by
desktop/packaging/arch/package-prebuilt.sh, which wraps the binary the Linux
job already built into a .pkg.tar.zst. No second Rust build, no Arch CI image:
the binary bundles nothing and resolves webkit/gtk/soup by soname, identical
on both distros, with SQLite compiled in and glibc used in the safe
built-old/run-new direction. CI is Debian and has no pacman, so the step logs
.PKGINFO plus the full file listing for audit instead of pretending to verify.
Debian (task 2074): install.sh hands the .deb to every Debian/Ubuntu user and
nothing had ever inspected it. tauri.conf.json now declares
libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 + libgtk-3-0 explicitly rather than trusting inference —
and deliberately declares no appindicator or sqlite dep, since tauri is built
with features=[] and rusqlite is "bundled". desktop/packaging/deb/verify.sh
prints the generated control file, cross-checks it against what the ELF
actually needs via dpkg-shlibdeps, confirms every declared dep exists in apt,
and clean-container installs when a docker CLI is available.
Both artifacts join the run artifact and the tagged release; install.sh grows
a pacman branch so Arch/CachyOS gets a native install instead of the AppImage
fallback. Still no release cut (rule 2).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SreJkbxB4gx8pPsu8QbLPi
Native-first fix for the AppImage black window: a PKGBUILD that builds from source,
linked against SYSTEM graphics libs, so it renders on the host driver.
- desktop/packaging/arch/{PKGBUILD,thoughtsync.desktop,README.md}: `makepkg -si`
installs /usr/bin/thoughtsync + .desktop + icon; deps webkit2gtk-4.1/gtk3/...;
builds the frontend + `cargo build --release` (no tauri-cli). Uses the host
graphics stack -> avoids EGL_BAD_PARAMETER.
- Commit the icon set (desktop/src-tauri/icons/*.png, un-gitignored) so BOTH
`cargo build` (pacman) and `cargo tauri build` (deb/appimage) work without a
generate step; bundle.icon -> the 4 committed PNGs; drop the `cargo tauri icon`
step from desktop.yml.
- Broaden the WebKit software-render hardening (lib.rs) to ALL Linux (was
AppImage-scoped) so the native build also renders if system WebKit is finicky.
Can't CI-test the PKGBUILD (Arch-only; CI is Debian) -- operator builds locally.
desktop.yml re-verifies the deb+AppImage build with the committed icons.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FRgehjoz7Yv8LkUfADxACm
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