A config generated on one machine pinned
/usr/share/fonts/google-noto/NotoSans-Regular.ttf; on another host the
same package installs under fonts/noto, so the shared config made the
fontloader thread panic ("Font file not found") and, with panic =
"abort", kill wldash before a window appeared.
resolve_font_path() now uses a pinned path only if the file exists,
otherwise asks fontconfig for the name (what fc-match does) and says so
on stderr. find_font() and FontLoader::from_path() return errors
instead of unwrapping, and an unresolvable font exits with one clear
line. Generated configs leave font_paths unset so names resolve per
machine; pinning remains possible by hand.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The desktop-entry cache lived in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/wldash/desktop.json.
On an NFS-shared home that is a remote read and write on every start
(unless the session happens to export a machine-local XDG_CACHE_HOME),
and it went stale whenever a package was installed until someone ran
--desktop-refresh. Scanning the applications directories takes a few
milliseconds over local /usr/share and already happened on a background
thread, so the cache bought nothing: drop it, along with simd-json and
the serde derives on Desktop. --desktop-refresh stays as a no-op so old
key bindings keep working.
Calculator history and the prompt saved on Escape are state, not cache:
they move to $XDG_STATE_HOME/wldash (~/.local/state), written only on
Enter/Escape, and the old cache location is still read as a fallback.
With the serde derives gone, two Desktop fields were unused; use them:
Type=Link entries now open their URL with xdg-open, and Terminal=true
entries run under $TERMINAL -e when it is set.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
