dovetail 0.1.1

One dependency for everything a desktop app runs at runtime: the window, the tray, the panel, global shortcuts, the single-instance guard, the updater and form validation.

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dovetail

One dependency for everything the app runs.

Researching what already exists in the Flutter desktop ecosystem always led to the same answer: the pieces are all there — window_manager, tray_manager, hotkey_manager, auto_updater, Fastforge — except each one has a different author, its own configuration and its own release cycle. awesome-flutter-desktop, which is the canonical list, does not even have a category for code signing. Tauri's value was never one piece: it was a CLI and a file.

dependencies:
  dovetail: ^0.1.0

import 'package:dovetail/dovetail.dart';

What comes in

package	what it brings
dovetail_platform_channel	window, tray, anchored panel, single instance, deep link, notification, login item
dovetail_shortcut_channel	global shortcut, through the same global-hotkey crate Tauri uses
dovetail_updater	manifest, download with a ceiling, minisign verification, installing on all three OSs
dovetail_form_validation	the seven form rules, with a failure that says which one broke
dovetail_process_runner	the runner the installers receive

What stays out, on purpose

dovetail_bundler, dovetail_signer and dovetail_cli do not come in. Packaging and signing happen on the release machine, never inside the app; dragging them in here would put a code-signing toolchain inside every user build. Those three already have an entry point, and it is dovetail_cli.

A product's bridge package stays out too: it carries one specific product's Rust API, and a toolkit package knows about no product at all.

What this does not solve

Having a barrel does not make what is behind it ready. Each package documents what it proves on one machine and what needs another operating system; the barrel does not change a line of that.