CROSS-PLATFORM AUDIT:
- Linux x86_64 (Fedora 43, KDE Wayland): HIGH confidence (the dev target)
- Linux other distros / X11: MEDIUM (tested patterns, untested distros)
- Windows 10/11: LOW — theoretically supported via Tauri + CPAL + whisper.cpp
+ tauri-plugin-global-shortcut (the custom evdev hotkey is no-op on
Windows); has had zero hands-on testing
- macOS Apple Silicon / Intel: LOW — same; macOS Info.plist needs
NSMicrophoneUsageDescription for the bundled app, and the path bug
fixed in this commit
REAL BUG FIXED — macOS app_data_dir was Unix-style:
crates/storage/src/file_storage.rs::app_data_dir() previously fell into
the "Unix" branch on macOS and wrote to ~/.kon/, which violates Apple
guidelines and confuses install/uninstall tooling. Now correctly:
- Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%/kon (unchanged)
- macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Kon/
- Linux: $XDG_DATA_HOME/kon or ~/.local/share/kon (XDG Base Directory),
with legacy ~/.kon/ fallback so existing installs keep working
- Other Unix: ~/.kon/ (unchanged)
OS DETECTION LAYER:
- New get_os_info Tauri command in commands/diagnostics.rs returns:
{os, arch, family, usesCmd, isWayland, customHotkeyBackend,
primaryModifierLabel}
- New src/lib/utils/osInfo.js helper:
- async loadOsInfo() warms a cache, called once at root layout mount
- then isMac() / isWindows() / isLinux() / modKeyLabel() / isWayland()
are synchronous
- browser-preview fallback reads navigator.platform
- Lets components localise hotkey labels (Cmd vs Ctrl), file-picker
copy ("Open Finder" vs "Open Explorer"), etc, without recomputing in
every place.
cargo check -p kon-storage clean. Updated HANDOVER-2026-04-17.md with
a per-platform confidence table.
Jake
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