Three independent defects plus one SSOT violation caused reported symptom
of image wallpapers rendering solid black in exported MP4/GIF while
appearing correctly in the editor preview.
Bug A — Dev-mode IPC handler returned <appPath>/public/assets/, but
wallpapers live at public/wallpapers/. No assets/ subdirectory exists in
source.
Bug B — FrameRenderer.setupBackground bypassed getAssetPath and did
window.location.origin + wallpaper, producing file:///wallpapers/*.jpg
404s in packaged Electron.
Bug C — setupBackground silently caught any background-load error and
filled black. Masked Bug B from the export pipeline; why the bug shipped.
Smell D — Asset layout asymmetric: public/wallpapers/ (dev) vs
resources/assets/wallpapers/ (packaged). assets/ subdirectory had no
other consumers.
Fixes:
- Unify asset layout. electron-builder extraResources now copies to
resources/wallpapers/ (no assets/). Main handler returns
<resourcesPath>/ packaged and <appPath>/public/ unpackaged. Same
convention in both modes: /wallpapers/x.jpg maps to <base>/wallpapers/x.jpg.
Nix package.nix mirror updated.
- New src/lib/wallpaper.ts module owns the wallpaper contract:
DEFAULT_WALLPAPER, classifyWallpaper (color/gradient/image), and
resolveImageWallpaperUrl (pure URL resolver, wraps getAssetPath).
BackgroundLoadError typed error for short-circuit detection.
- FrameRenderer.setupBackground uses the new helpers. Silent black
fallback removed; rethrows as BackgroundLoadError. Export pipeline
(VideoExporter + GifExporter) short-circuits encoder-retry loop on
BackgroundLoadError. VideoEditor catch site dispatches to translated
exportBackgroundLoadFailed toast.
- VideoPlayback editor preview consolidated onto the same helpers.
Three default-wallpaper path literals (useEditorHistory,
projectPersistence, VideoPlayback) collapsed onto DEFAULT_WALLPAPER.
- i18n: new errors.exportBackgroundLoadFailed key added to all seven
locales (en, zh-CN, zh-TW, es, fr, tr, ko-KR).
- Tests: 20 unit tests for wallpaper module (classifyWallpaper +
resolveImageWallpaperUrl branches + BackgroundLoadError).
videoExporter.browser.test.ts and gifExporter.browser.test.ts extended
with image-wallpaper happy path and BackgroundLoadError failure path.
Migration note: packaged users upgrading in place may retain an empty
resources/assets/ directory from the prior layout. Unreferenced at
runtime; cosmetic only. DMG/AppImage fresh installs get the new layout
directly.
gitTracked uses builtins.fetchGit which fails when the source is
already a store path (happens with path: flake inputs from consuming
flakes). Detect store paths at eval time and fall back to cleanSource.
Replace denylist approach with gitTracked to exclude node_modules,
dist, .git, and any other untracked artifacts from the derivation.
Keeps the nix/flake/md exclusions as they are nix-only or non-source.
Reproducible development environment for NixOS/Nix contributors:
- Dev shell with Node 22, system Electron, Playwright, LD_LIBRARY_PATH
for X11/Wayland/audio libs, activated automatically via direnv
- buildNpmPackage derivation wrapping system Electron with desktop file
and hicolor icons
- NixOS module (programs.openscreen.enable) with xdg-desktop-portal
- Home Manager module for per-user installation
- Overlay for composing with other flakes
Tested: nix flake show, nix develop, nix build, nixos-rebuild switch
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