fix: auto-register Linux desktop icon on portable app start - #123
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Portable Linux installs were launched from a tarball with no FreeDesktop entry, so launchers often fell back to a generic settings-style icon. On Linux startup, when portable-app.json is present next to the binary, silently refresh a user-level .desktop entry and a 256px icon under XDG_DATA_HOME. Uses the existing Tauri icon asset via include_bytes. No install script and no packaging layout change; failures are logged only and never block startup.
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Summary
Linux portable installs are just an extracted tarball. Without a proper FreeDesktop entry, app menu / desktop launchers often show a generic settings-style icon.
Users should not have to run an install script after every extract/update.
Approach
On Linux app startup, if this looks like a portable install (
portable-app.jsonnext to the executable):~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/easycliproxyapi.png(embedded from existingsrc-tauri/icons/128x128@2x.png)~/.local/share/applications/easycliproxyapi.desktopwith absoluteExec=andIcon=update-desktop-database/gtk-update-icon-cacheNo packaging/script/README changes. No new user-facing step: open the app once after install/move.
Files
src-tauri/src/linux_desktop.rs(new)src-tauri/src/main.rs(call fromsetup)Test plan
cargo test linux_desktopon Linux CIExec=updates