- theme.rs gains the layout block: PAD, COLUMN_GAP, BOX_MARGIN, the toolbar,
dialog and page widths that change the layout, the three title sizes, and the
icon-link padding and gap. The app page, Settings, release notes and the small
prompts read from it instead of their own 12/14/16/24/32s.
- One brand-coloured scroll bar (sheet::accent_scroll takes the colour), used by
the app page too instead of a copy.
- An app that is not installed draws its text and accent in the theme's muted
grey; only the icon is a grey copy of itself.
- The compact toolbar puts "Sort" before its picker, like the full row; refresh
lights up on hover like the grid/table switch beside it.
- The grid keeps its sort rule in one place (views::grid_sort_now), and only the
grid groups installed apps first; the table keeps its column's order.
- icon_links owns its spacing, so neighbouring targets never touch, and Settings
sizes its icon row with icon_links_width.
- ATTRIBUTION.md lists discord.svg; a stale comment about the grid's sorts is gone.
Header: the Discord link and the refresh button leave the top bar; refresh sits in the toolbar and
Settings stays on the right.
Toolbar: the filter tabs go (installed apps come first, the rest under a Not installed heading); a
sort dropdown (Name A-Z / Z-A, Recently updated, Frequently used), search, Update all and the
grid/table switch drawn as two icons.
Cards and table: the version sits in the strip, apps that are not installed are drawn in grey until
hovered, the headline and last-updated date replace the status sentence; the table's two version
columns become one.
Footer: Website, GitHub and Discord join the social links as icons with more room between them.
App page: pictures, story and facts re-laid out for windows with and without screenshots.
Dialogs: Settings and release notes become large cards like the app page (a header with the brand
colour, a scrolling body, a pinned footer), Settings in boxed groups, two columns when wide.
Also adds core::release::safe_web_link, so links in release notes open only when they are plain https.
* Add FigCraft to the launcher
FigCraft (storytold/figcraft): interface design and prototyping, the
thirteenth Craft App and the sixth in the New group.
- Catalog row (brand colour #02da96 from FigCraft's icon README), details
page (no pictures yet), Linux desktop categories, icon tables, tagline
in every catalog, xtask local mirror list.
- Icon copied unmodified from FigCraft's repo; ATTRIBUTION.md row.
- The Windows installer art fits five rows of icons.
- Test that a companion figcraft-server tarball is never picked as the app.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Release 0.4.1
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The pictures repo was renamed from artcraft-launcher-assets to match craft-launcher. GitHub
redirects the old name for now, but the launcher should not depend on that.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Add a hand-written details page for each Craft App
core::details holds, for every app in the suite, a headline, a few
paragraphs, a list of features, where it runs and the list of its
pictures. The copy is the launcher's own: written from each app's page on
getartcraft.com and, for the five newer apps, from its README. It is
compiled in, so it works offline and in the web build, and it leaves out
figures that go stale (effect counts, timings).
The pictures are not in this repository. A page names them (a key and a
caption each) and AppDetails::screenshot_url turns a key into the address
of a 1200 px JPEG in storytold/artcraft-launcher-assets, pinned to a tag
(SCREENSHOTS_REV) so a saved copy never goes stale. It only answers for
keys the page lists, so no address is ever built from anyone else's text.
MAX_SCREENSHOT_BYTES caps what is accepted, and looks_like_jpeg refuses a
login page or error page that arrives as a 200.
PdfCraft lists none yet: its screenshots still show its old name
(PrintCraft). ATTRIBUTION.md points to the pictures repository, which
carries each picture's own provenance.
Tests check that every app has exactly one page, that each is filled in,
and that addresses come only from a page's own pictures.
* Open an app's details in a drawer from its card
Clicking a card (or an app's name in the table) slides a drawer in from
the right over the dimmed grid. It shows the app's headline, version and
main button, links to its website, GitHub and releases, a gallery of
screenshots, its features, the facts and notes of its latest release, and
the same trademark notice as the grid. Esc, the close button or a click
on the grid closes it. The page's text is the hand-written copy in
core::details; the version, date, download size and notes come from the
release the launcher already fetches.
The pictures are fetched when a page is opened, not bundled. The UI sends
Command::FetchScreenshots and gets one Event::Screenshot per picture, the
lead one first. The desktop backend downloads them through the launcher's
Http (its User-Agent, a 2 MB cap, redirects followed) and keeps them under
<cache>/screenshots/<revision>/<app>/<key>.jpg, so later opens, and any
time offline, read from disk. Only a JPEG is kept: a login page or error
page that arrives as a 200 is refused. A missing picture doesn't hold the
others back, but once the network has failed the rest fail at once instead
of each waiting for its own timeout. The web build does the same with
fetch and leaves the caching to the browser.
Until a picture is here, a frame of the same size says "Loading pictures…"
or, when it failed, that it couldn't be loaded and that reopening the page
tries again; nothing moves when the picture arrives. The lead picture
opens full-window, the arrows over the pictures and the arrow keys flip
through them, wrapping around, and a scroll bar stays visible (egui's
floating one only shows under the pointer).
The drawer's labels are tl! strings, with 13 rows in each of ru, zh-CN,
de, fr and pt-BR; details.rs joins the sources the catalog coverage test
reads. Every size taken from the window is kept non-negative: the new
tests resize it from 40 x 30 to 4000 x 2400 with the drawer open.
actions() becomes actions_in(), which can leave the links out of the
... menu where the page already shows them as buttons. The image crate's
jpeg feature is enabled to decode the pictures (zune-jpeg and zune-core
join Cargo.lock). The dim and the enlarged picture's backdrop are colours
in theme.rs.
* Bring the details drawer up to date with main
- Website is always a button now (#198); drop the "Like {name}" line and the trademark notice,
which main removed with the product comparisons (93caf01).
- Bring back widgets::eyebrow for the drawer's section headings (#187 dropped its last caller).
- The drawer's ⋯ menu leaves out only the links, so Hide/Unhide (#185) stays.
- No slide when the OS asks for reduced motion (#201).
- Translate the screen readers' "{name} details" label, and add the drawer's strings to the
Spanish, Czech, Polish, Hungarian and Japanese catalogs.
- AGENTS.md: name the pictures' download origin.
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Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <[email protected]>
* macOS: build the DMG with hdiutil create so the app passes codesign --strict
hdiutil makehybrid -hfs put a com.apple.FinderInfo on every file in the
image, so the signed app inside the DMG (and any ditto copy of it) failed
codesign --verify --deep --strict. That is why verify.sh had dropped
--strict. Build the image with hdiutil create -srcfolder (retried, since
create can hit "Resource busy" on CI), clear build-time xattrs before
signing, and make verify.sh check the app in the finished DMG and a ditto
copy of it with --strict again.
Ported from storytold/pdfcraft#823 and storytold/lightcraft#959.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* macOS DMG: branded window background and icon layout
The launcher's DMG opened as a plain Finder window, unlike every other
Craft app. Add packaging/macos/dmg/ the same way WordCraft and PhotoCraft
did: a background (the ArtCraft mark whole on its blue, title, Ink and
Paper), a .DS_Store with the window size and icon positions, and the
generate.py that writes both reproducibly. The volume is now named
"ArtCraft Launcher" without the version, which the background alias needs;
the DMG file name keeps the version.
Fixes#20
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Fabio Lussi <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- 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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- 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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- 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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- 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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- 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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- 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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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