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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Linux AppImage can now install itself into the applications menu, so it behaves
like an installed app instead of a loose file.
- Rust (desktop/src-tauri/src/integration.rs): integration_status / integrate_desktop
/ unintegrate_desktop commands — detect $APPIMAGE, copy the AppImage to
~/Applications, write ~/.local/share/applications/thoughtsync.desktop + embedded
icon, update-desktop-database. Registered in lib.rs.
- Frontend: withGlobalTauri exposes window.__TAURI__.core.invoke; desktop/bridge.ts
(isDesktop + typed invoke, NO @tauri-apps/api dep -> web bundle unaffected);
DesktopIntegrationPrompt (first-run OOBE, remembered) mounted in App.vue;
AccountView "Desktop app" add/remove control. All desktop-guarded -> no-ops on web.
- desktop.yml: upload the .deb + .AppImage as a run artifact (continue-on-error) so
the build is downloadable for hand-testing.
Verified by CI: ci.yml (vue-tsc) for the frontend, desktop.yml (cargo + tauri build)
for the Rust + AppImage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FRgehjoz7Yv8LkUfADxACm