Three QoL fixes for the Tauri shell:
1. Hide the entire AppHeader strip in VITE_DESKTOP, not just the
marketing nav. The previous gate left the black bar painting
over the editor with the brand + auto-save + share + auth
slot, all of which are irrelevant in desktop (cloud Pro
features, license is handled by DesktopWelcomePage, the title
bar already says "Velxio Desktop"). Return null at the top so
the editor takes the full window height.
2. Splash screen during sidecar boot + Monaco hydration. Cold
launch was a 3-8 s black window — now there's an inline SVG
logo, "Velxio" wordmark, slogan, animated spinner, and a
"Starting local backend…" caption. Lives in index.html as a
fixed-position overlay with display:none by default; the inline
script reveals it only when `window.__TAURI__` is present, so
web users never see it. main.tsx fades it out (250 ms ease-out)
after two animation frames — guarantees React's first paint has
committed before the handoff, no black flash. Self-contained:
inline styles, inline SVG, inline CSS keyframes, zero external
requests.
3. Native locale switcher under View → Language. Emits
`velxio://menu` with action='set-locale' + the locale code; the
desktop/menu.ts handler navigates via history.pushState +
popstate so React Router picks it up without a hard reload
(Monaco + simulator state preserved). Locale list mirrors
i18n/config.ts::LOCALES.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two new modules under the existing desktop/ subtree, both no-op
outside a Tauri runtime (tauriBridge.listen / .invoke fail gracefully).
desktop/menu.ts — listens for the `velxio://menu` event the Rust
shell emits from the native menubar (Velxio Desktop / File / Edit
/ View / Help, full menu defined in
pro/desktop/src-tauri/src/menu.rs). Internal actions handled
directly here: Save .vlx and Open .vlx via utils/vlxFile, Toggle
Serial Monitor via useSimulatorStore, Check for Updates via the
tauri-plugin-updater global. The rest (new-project, Find,
Toggle File Explorer) re-emit as window CustomEvent so the owners
of that UI state can subscribe without pulling this module in.
desktop/log.ts — `dlog(message, extra?)` round-trips a line to a
Rust `write_debug_log` command that appends to
`<app_data_dir>/desktop-debug.log`. Packaged Tauri apps have no
devtools or stdout capture, so this is the only way to see what
the webview did when a user reports a bug. Falls back to plain
console.log when the command isn't registered (older shell).
mountDesktop() now installs the menu listener and dlog's its own
start — useful as a "did the desktop module even load" smoke marker.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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