devpod-desktop: refactor; devpod{,-desktop}: 0.5.20 -> 0.6.15

[TomaSajt]

Description of changes

I did a refactor of devpod-desktop

• combine the frontent derivation into the main derivation
• use cargo-tauri.hook
• patch out sidecar file logic
• patch out schema registering logic
• add glib-networking for image loading
• add darwin support
• add myself as a maintainer

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Tracking issue for removal of mkYarnPackage usages: #324246

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[nyabinary]

Merge conflict :3

[TomaSajt]

Merge conflict :3

Resolved

[LordGrimmauld]

Devpod 0.5.x is stuck on Tauri v1.
The automatic updates to 0.6.x are obviously failing, as webkltgtk and other dependencies break with the update, see #346139

I went and did the update to 0.6.15 myself, mostly hoping to drop yet another libsoup_2_4 dependency:
LordGrimmauld@d20f03b

Feel free to cherry-pick that into this PR. If not thats fine too, then i'll open this as a follow-up.

[LordGrimmauld]

I can't test darwin, but the linux version seems to build and is already significantly more maintainable thanks to tauri hook. Good work!

[nyabinary]

If you do cherry-pick mind replacing the rec with finalAttrs and remove meta with lib usage?

[LordGrimmauld]

Makes sense, thanks!

[TomaSajt]

I'll also add desktop-file-edit in a moment. Sorry for the constant re-reviews.

[TomaSajt]

Okay, looks like the deep-link tauri plugin is trying to set the app as the default handler for the devpod scheme.

.config/mimeapps.list:

[Default Applications]
devpod=.DevPod Desktop-wrapped-handler.desktop

.local/share/applications/".DevPod Desktop-wrapped-handler.desktop":

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=devpod
Exec=/nix/store/yalks9lxqsy1rzlxhzcgyxbfm0y4rs09-devpod-desktop-0.6.15/bin/.DevPod Desktop-wrapped %u
Terminal=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/devpod;
NoDisplay=true

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I think I'll patch this logic out, since it's mostly incorrect anyways.
(we shouldn't be using the .*-wrapped binary directly, we shouldn't have absolute paths in .desktop files)

[TomaSajt]

Okay, I think I am finished with the refactoring.
Tested the schema handler on NixOS+hm, seems to work okay.

[TomaSajt]

Uhhh... my ~/.local/share/sh.loft.devpod/logs/DevPod.log.log file takes up 76GBs.

All of the lines are this:
[2025-04-19][17:51:22][devpod_desktop::updates][ERROR] Failed to get updater

I think I will have to patch this.

[LordGrimmauld]

Oh dear wtf! Good luck!

[alyssais]

@nyabinary anything in particular you think I should be looking at here?

[nyabinary]

@nyabinary anything in particular you think I should be looking at here?

Involved with the libsoup stuff removes a usage of libsoup and hasn't been reviewed by anyone else :3

[alyssais]

That sounds great but there's a lot more than that going on here I don't know anything about.

[doronbehar]

Almost LGTM.

[doronbehar]

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x86_64-linux

✅ 2 packages built:

• devpod
• devpod-desktop