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.
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.
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.
