[Linux] Wayland: window has an empty app_id, so taskbars and docks cannot resolve an icon

App version

linux-rust @ 672e65ad (nightly librepods-x86_64.AppImage, built 2026-06-12)

Variant

Rust rewrite (linux-rust branch)

Distro and version

CachyOS (rolling)

Desktop environment / compositor

niri 26.04 (Wayland)

Install method (only official sources)

AppImage

AirPods model

Other / not sure — the bug is device-independent; it only concerns the window's Wayland app_id.

What happened

On Wayland the LibrePods toplevel advertises an empty app_id. Panels and docks key their icon lookup off app_id → .desktop entry, so LibrePods shows a blank placeholder instead of an icon. It also means any other app_id-less window on the system (a browser picture-in-picture window, for instance) gets grouped into the same taskbar entry.

Settings { id: Some("librepods") } is set in start_ui, but on Linux iced never reads that field — it only reads the per-window window::Settings::platform_specific.application_id, which is left at its Default value of "".

Expected: app_id == "librepods".
Actual: app_id == "".

Reproduction

1. Launch LibrePods under any Wayland compositor.
2. Query the toplevel's app_id:

$ niri msg -j windows | jq -r '.[] | "\(.app_id // "<null>")\t\(.title)"'
md.obsidian.Obsidian	Today's Meetings - obsidian - Obsidian 1.13.7
t3code	T3 Code (Nightly)
localsend	LocalSend
	LibrePods          <-- empty app_id
helium	Inbox | Fastmail - Helium

Cause

linux-rust/src/ui/window.rs:54-59 sets the application-level id:

.settings(Settings {
    id: Some("librepods".to_string()),
    ...
})

In iced 0.14 that id reaches iced_winit::conversion::window_attributes as the _id parameter — and the only block that consumes _id is gated to the BSDs (winit/src/conversion.rs#L78-L89):

#[cfg(any(
    target_os = "dragonfly",
    target_os = "freebsd",
    target_os = "netbsd",
    target_os = "openbsd"
))]
{
    use ::winit::platform::wayland::WindowAttributesExtWayland;

    if let Some(id) = _id {
        attributes = attributes.with_name(id.clone(), id);
    }
}

The block that actually compiles on Linux reads a different field — the per-window one (winit/src/conversion.rs#L137-L163):

#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
{
    #[cfg(feature = "wayland")]
    {
        use winit::platform::wayland::WindowAttributesExtWayland;

        attributes = attributes.with_name(
            &settings.platform_specific.application_id,
            &settings.platform_specific.application_id,
        );
    }
}

core/src/window/settings/linux.rs declares application_id: String under #[derive(Default)], so an untouched window::Settings::default() produces with_name("", "").

Suggested fix

Set it on the window settings at both window::Settings::default() sites in linux-rust/src/ui/window.rs (lines 143 and 280):

let mut settings = window::Settings::default();
settings.min_size = Some(Size::new(400.0, 300.0));
settings.platform_specific.application_id = "librepods".to_string();

librepods matches the basename of librepods.desktop, which is what iced's own docs recommend and what panels expect.

Additional context

Two related things I ran into while tracking this down:

1. The window icon path is relative and resolved at runtime. At window.rs:145 and window.rs:282:

settings.icon = window::icon::from_file("../../assets/icon.png").ok();

That resolves against the process working directory, so it fails for any normal launch, and .ok() swallows the error silently. include_bytes! plus window::icon::from_file_data would embed it the same way the font already is on line 56.

2. The AUR package ships no icon or desktop entry. librepods-git installs only usr/bin/librepods and the licence, so packaged installs have nothing for an Icon= key to point at even once app_id is correct. The AppImage already carries a good 256×256 me.kavishdevar.librepods.png and a librepods.desktop; installing those into usr/share/icons/hicolor/ and usr/share/applications/ would cover it. (Related: #384.)

Start in linux-rust/src/ui/window.rs, comparing the two window::Settings::default() sites around lines 143 and 280 with the application-level settings in start_ui. Check iced's Linux window settings path and verify the Wayland toplevel with niri after the change. Done means the LibrePods window reports app_id as "librepods" rather than an empty value.