The launcher now looks like the apps page on getartcraft.com: the site's
colour tokens, square corners, 1 px hairlines instead of shadows, app cards
in a shared-hairline grid with numbered tabs and "Photo*Craft*" wordmarks,
mono upper-case labels and buttons, and square badges for status.
Fonts are the site's own, embedded in the binary: Archivo (620, 118 % width)
for headings and app names, Inter for body text and Geist Mono for labels,
all variable fonts from google/fonts (OFL-1.1) set to the site's weights.
The window has a custom title bar on Windows and Linux (drag to move,
double-click to maximize, minimize/maximize/close, resize from the edges)
and a transparent one on macOS with the traffic lights in the header.
The MSI used to flash a progress bar and close. Double-clicked, it now opens
a WixUI wizard (Welcome, Ready, progress, Finish with "Launch ArtCraft
Launcher"), with art drawn by package.ps1 from the ArtCraft mark and the
Craft apps' icons. Self-update still runs it with /passive. CI installs the
WiX UI and Util extensions.
The app icon is now the blue "A" mark, getartcraft.com's favicon.
packaging/icons.sh runs on any OS: `cargo xtask icns` packs the .icns.
Also: two clippy fixes in crates/native that newer clippy rejects, and
refreshed README screenshots.
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- LinkedIn icon linking to https://www.linkedin.com/company/artcraft-ai,
in the footer and Settings › Community
- Social icons now read X, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok
- The icon is from Font Awesome Free 6.7.2 (CC BY 4.0), since Simple
Icons no longer carries LinkedIn's logo; white fill and a square view
box, artwork unchanged. Credited in assets/social/README.md,
ATTRIBUTION.md and NOTICE
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Opening the launcher from the menu bar used to switch to the desktop
(Space) its window was last on, which is jarring when you're working on
another one. A new setting, "Show the window on the current desktop"
(on by default), sets AppKit's "move to active space" behavior on the
window whenever it's shown, so it comes to the desktop you're on instead.
Turning it off restores macOS's default of switching to the window.
macOS only: the code and its dependencies compile only for macOS, and
the setting appears only where the host has desktops. objc2,
objc2-foundation and objc2-app-kit are already in Cargo.lock through
winit and tray-icon; they're pinned to those versions, and only safe
AppKit calls are used.
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Self-update fixes since 0.1.0 (f4f1d77): the restart helper no longer
passes a pretend version on, a just-installed release isn't offered
again, and macOS DMG installs pass strict signature checks.
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Fixes found trying "Update and restart" on a real install:
- The restart helper no longer passes ARTCRAFT_LAUNCHER_PRETEND_VERSION
on to the new launcher. It inherited the old launcher's environment,
so the restarted copy still believed it was old and offered the same
update again, forever. A pretend version now lasts one run.
- Loop guard: before restarting, the launcher records the release it
updated to (self-update.txt in its data folder) and, for a day, won't
offer that release again. Protects against a release whose binary
reports a different version from its tag.
- macOS installs from a DMG (the launcher's own update and every Craft
App) copy with `ditto --norsrc --noextattr --noacl`. The disk image
adds Finder metadata to its files; copying it made
`codesign --verify --strict` reject the bundle as carrying detritus,
although Gatekeeper still accepted it. Signatures live in the bundle's
files, not in extended attributes.
Tests: the helper command removes the pretend variable; a just-installed
release isn't offered again until the guard lapses.
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When a newer launcher is released, the banner offers "Update and
restart": the new build is downloaded and verified like any Craft App,
put in place the way this copy was installed, and started by a small
helper once this process has exited (it holds the single-instance lock,
and Windows locks a running exe).
- macOS .app: new bundle copied from the DMG over this one, reopened
- Windows MSI (per-user): helper runs the new MSI after exit
- Windows portable: helper unzips over the folder after exit; settings stay
- Linux AppImage: new AppImage renamed over this one
- Linux .deb / .rpm: system package manager, then restart
- Flatpak, FreeBSD and dev builds keep the download link
ARTCRAFT_LAUNCHER_PRETEND_VERSION makes an installed copy act old, to try
the update against the current release. Tested: the helper waits for the
old process to exit; a real DMG replaces a bundle in place.
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Rebased onto main and combined with 8143a26: keeps the -bin/-git AUR detection and pre-release-aware version parsing from main, adds this change's pacman removal (now using the detected package name), its X.Y.Z-anywhere fallback and its dialog wording.
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Ideas from the ArtCraft Suite Updater:
- Arch / AUR: detect each app through pacman under all three AUR names
(<app>, <app>-bin, <app>-git; PdfCraft also as printcraft*). Updates
and removals of AUR installs show the paru / yay / pacman command
instead of installing a second copy
- Read package-manager versions the package-manager way: drop the
revision (0.5.0-1), epoch (1:) and VCS suffix (0.3.0.r47.g…), and map
Debian's ~. Fixes .deb installs of the latest release showing an
update forever
- Flatpak installs that list no version are read with `flatpak info`
- Look again at what's installed every 5 minutes, and when the window
regains focus (at most every 30 s), so apps installed or removed
outside the launcher show up; one detection pass at a time
- Package-list parsing lives in crates/native/src/packages.rs, tested on
every platform
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- README: the grid view (dark theme) is the main screenshot, with a
smaller table view (light theme) below it
- CI tests on Linux and Windows only: per craftrules, the org's macOS
runners are kept for release builds, and release.yml builds and checks
macOS
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- docs/screenshots/artcraft-launcher.png: the table view on macOS with
live release data, shown below the README's navigation links
- Credit the screenshot in ATTRIBUTION.md
- Trim the closing line of the Thanks section
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- The app icon (Dock, taskbar, Start menu, Linux menus, installers) is
now the black ArtCraft "A" mark, rendered unmodified from
docs/brand/artcraft-mark-black.svg by packaging/icons.sh; the old
tile icon is gone
- The app icon is an ArtCraft trademark, not MIT/Apache: say so in
assets/app-icon/, ATTRIBUTION, NOTICE, README and AGENTS.md
- Settings shows the blue mark in dark theme so it stays visible
- README: a Thanks section crediting the eleven community launchers
whose ideas shaped this one
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- Small monochrome service icons (Simple Icons 16.34.0, CC0) linking to
ArtCraft's accounts, after Website · GitHub · Discord in the footer and
in Settings › Community; quieter than Discord, brighter on hover
- Settings: the community description gets its own line, so the
Website and GitHub buttons no longer overlap it
- Credit the icons in assets/social/README.md, ATTRIBUTION.md and NOTICE
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- Header: the ArtCraft wordmark (white on dark, ink on light), "Launcher ·
Craft App Suite" and the tagline "Open Source Tools for Creatives,
Makers, and Builders"
- Tray / menu-bar icon is now the ArtCraft "A" mark, rendered unmodified
from docs/brand; the old self-drawn tray icons are gone
- Repo docs (NOTICE, ATTRIBUTION, README, asset licenses, AGENTS.md)
call out that the ArtCraft name, logo and mark are not MIT/Apache
- Table: "Inspired by" column; every column sorts both ways, empty cells
last; the grid's sort menu has the same options
- Adobe / Microsoft / Autodesk / Avid trademark notice under both views;
inspirations shown with ®
- Links: Discord button in the header; Website · GitHub · Discord in the
footer, tray menu and Settings; each card links to its app's website
(classic apps) and GitHub repo, and the … menu has both
- Fix links never opening: enable eframe's "links" feature
- Clear stale partial downloads at startup
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Every download failed at its last read: ureq's body limit errors once
the limit is reached, and it was set to the exact file size. Sizes and
checksums are now checked by the launcher, with headroom on the limit.
- Pause keeps the partial file; Resume continues from the same byte
(HTTP range requests). Cancel discards it.
- Dropped or stalled connections retry with backoff from where they
stopped, shown as "Reconnecting…"; if the connection stays down the
download pauses itself instead of failing
- Partial downloads survive quitting and show as paused next launch
- Ask for identity encoding so bytes arrive exactly as published
- SHA-256 from GitHub's digest or SHA256SUMS.txt; a mismatch refetches
once from scratch. Releases with no checksum install with a size
check and say so; a checksum list that can't be fetched is an error
- Tests against a scripted local server for each failure mode
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A native Rust/egui launcher for the 12 Craft Apps (7 classic + 5 new).
- Grid (icon cards) or sortable table view, filters and search
- Status per app: available, installed and up to date, or update
available with version and release date
- Installs where each OS keeps apps, from the official release packages:
/Applications (DMG), Program Files (MSI), deb/rpm via the system
package manager (Flatpak/AppImage fallback), /usr/local on FreeBSD
- Detects apps installed by hand; updates keep the installed format
- Every download verified against its published SHA-256; running apps
are never replaced
- Tray/menu-bar mode, start at login, one notification per new version
- GitHub API with ETag cache, falling back to release pages when
rate-limited; release source is pluggable for a future catalog API
- Web build lists latest releases with per-platform downloads
- Packaging and release workflows for macOS, Windows (x64/x86/arm64),
Linux (x86_64/aarch64), FreeBSD and web
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