The Wails v3 tray is a pure DBus StatusNotifierItem implementation and no
longer links libappindicator (a Fyne-era dependency). Drop the
libayatana-appindicator runtime and build deps, and move the rpm package
and dev-dependency docs onto the GTK4 / WebKitGTK 6.0 stack that the
default (non-gtk3) build actually links against.
windows:build:console fixed -tags production, which disables the
WebKit/WebView2 DevTools inspector — so there was no way to get a
console-attached Windows binary with the frontend JS console reachable.
Mirror build:native's DEV handling: DEV=true drops the production tag
while keeping the console subsystem (no -H windowsgui).
Two Linux packaging issues, both surfaced by the netbird-ui deb/rpm
built from .goreleaser_ui.yaml.
1) License / vendor metadata
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The nfpm entries for the UI package set only maintainer/description/
homepage, leaving the License and Vendor RPM/DEB tags empty. KDE
Discover (and GNOME Software) then render the package as
"Licenses: Unknown" / "Unknown author", with a scary license-warning
popup on install. The daemon's main .goreleaser.yaml already set
license (commit #5659) but never vendor, and the UI config was skipped
entirely.
Fix: add `license: BSD-3-Clause` + `vendor: NetBird` to both UI nfpm
entries (deb + rpm), and `vendor: NetBird` to the daemon's deb + rpm
entries for consistency. BSD-3-Clause is correct for client/ui — the
repo is BSD-3-Clause except management/, signal/, relay/, combined/
(AGPLv3), none of which the UI touches.
2) KDE Wayland window/taskbar icon
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On KDE Plasma 6 under Wayland the app launched with the generic Wails
icon in the window titlebar and the taskbar / Alt-Tab switcher, even
though /usr/share/pixmaps/netbird.png (the launcher icon, resolved from
the desktop entry's `Icon=netbird`) was correct.
Root cause is how a Wayland compositor decides a window's icon. Unlike
X11 there is no per-window _NET_WM_ICON the app can push at runtime —
GTK4 even removed gtk_window_set_icon, so the embedded assets/netbird.png
the binary carries is simply ignored. Instead the compositor matches the
window's Wayland **app_id** to an installed .desktop file and uses that
entry's `Icon=` key.
The app_id is not "netbird": Wails hardcodes it as `org.wails.<name>`
(pkg/application/linux_cgo.go: `fmt.Sprintf("org.wails.%s", name)`, name
= sanitized Options.Name), yielding **org.wails.netbird**. There is no
Wails option to override the prefix. Verified the live value on the
Fedora-40 / KDE 6.3 / Wayland test VM by dumping workspace.windowList()
via a KWin script:
js: ZZZWIN org.wails.netbird ## NetBird
KDE needs two things to associate the running window with our desktop
entry and thus paint our icon:
- the desktop entry's basename should equal the app_id, so the
titlebar decoration (which looks the entry up by app_id ->
<app_id>.desktop) finds it, and
- a `StartupWMClass=<app_id>` line, which the taskbar / task switcher
use to map the surface to the entry.
Fix (no Wails fork needed — app_id stays org.wails.netbird, which the
user never sees; only Name=NetBird and the icon are visible):
- install the desktop file as `org.wails.netbird.desktop` instead of
`netbird.desktop` (both deb and rpm contents in .goreleaser_ui.yaml)
- add `StartupWMClass=org.wails.netbird` to
client/ui/build/linux/netbird.desktop
`Icon=netbird` and the pixmaps/netbird.png payload are unchanged — they
were already correct. Confirmed on the test VM that both the titlebar
and taskbar/Alt-Tab now show the NetBird icon.
The build/config.yml that wails3 init scaffolded shipped with 'My Company',
'My Product', 'com.mycompany.myproduct' and '(c) 2025, My Company' template
defaults. The per-platform assets generated from it (Info.plist,
Info.dev.plist, info.json, nsis/wails_tools.nsh) carried the same strings,
which were visible in macOS Finder Get Info, Windows .exe Properties and
the NSIS installer.
Updated to the NetBird identity used by the legacy Fyne UI on main:
- companyName / copyright -> 'NetBird GmbH' (matches main release.yml's
COPYRIGHT env passed to goversioninfo)
- productName -> 'NetBird'
- productIdentifier -> 'io.netbird.client' (matches CFBundleIdentifier)
- description -> 'NetBird desktop client'
- darwin NSHumanReadableCopyright -> 'NetBird GmbH'
- windows LegalCopyright -> 'NetBird GmbH'
- nsis INFO_COPYRIGHT -> 'NetBird GmbH'
Version fields (0.0.1) are left in place: release builds get the real
version via goversioninfo (Windows) and sign-pipelines (macOS .app),
so the placeholder is only visible in local task package / task run
output and doesn't reach release artifacts.
All Wails3 Taskfiles passed -buildvcs=false to go build, which disables
the automatic VCS info embedding Go 1.18+ does by default. As a result
runtime/debug.ReadBuildInfo() returned an empty vcs.revision in our
netbird-ui binary, so the upcoming version.NetbirdCommit() helper from
PR #6263 could not display the git sha for dev builds.
Removed from build:native in all three platform Taskfiles plus the
Windows build:console and the Dockerfile.cross cross-compile script.
go version -m bin/netbird-ui now reports vcs.revision and vcs.modified.
The ui-wails -> ui rename deleted the fyne installer assets but left the
NSIS and WiX scripts pointing at client/ui/assets/netbird.ico, which broke
the Windows Installer CI job. Point both scripts at the Wails-side icon
(client/ui/build/windows/icon.ico) and restore banner.bmp into the new
build directory so the NSIS welcome/finish sidebar keeps rendering.
Removes the legacy fyne-based client/ui implementation and renames the
Wails replacement (client/ui-wails) to take its place at client/ui. Go
imports, frontend bindings, CI workflows, goreleaser configs and the
windows .syso icon path are updated to follow the rename.
