fix(nix): ship every public asset, cursors included

[EtienneLescot]

Summary

The Nix package now ships every public/ asset. Before, the cursor style picker was empty.

• Cause. Run as electron <dir>, the renderer loads its assets from <app>/public/. nix/package.nix copied only wallpapers and fonts there, so cursors was missing.
• Fix. public/ is now a symlink to dist/, which already holds all of public/ because Vite copies it there. There is no list to keep in sync any more.
• Guard. nix-build.yml gets a new step that fails when an entry of public/ is missing from the package.

The camera background was not affected. The compositor resolves the segmentation model through VITE_PUBLIC, which is dist/.

Related issue

Fixes #1085

Type of change

• Bug fix

Release impact

• Patch

Desktop impact

• Linux
• Installer / packaging

Testing

I ran nix build .#openscreen in WSL Ubuntu, on main and on this branch, and checked each result for every public/* entry:

• main (ad51125): 10 entries are missing. Among them are cursors, mediapipe, sounds and wasm.
• This branch (a164596): none are missing. public -> dist, and public/cursors/ lists the themes.

npmDepsHash is unchanged.

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• Chores
  • Improved package checks to detect missing public assets before a build completes.
  • Updated asset packaging so files from the public directory are included in the distribution output, rather than copied into a separate directory.

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Walkthrough

The Nix install phase now links public assets from Vite’s build output. The workflow updates its pull-request path filter and checks that each top-level source public/ entry exists in the packaged output.

Changes

Nix public asset packaging

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Link Vite public assets nix/package.nix	The install phase links public/ to dist/ instead of separately copying wallpapers and fonts.
Check packaged public assets .github/workflows/nix-build.yml	The pull-request path filter watches vite.config.ts. A packaging check reports and fails on top-level source public/ entries missing from the package.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: sepion02, my-denia

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a1645

Public-only changes can bypass the packaging check, and nested-file regressions can pass its shallow assertion. The current build path is configured to copy nested assets, so no present asset loss is established; the remaining risk is bounded to CI coverage.

Pre-merge checks | 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: ensuring that all public assets, including cursors, ship in the Nix package.
Description check		The description includes the summary, related issue, change type, release impact, desktop impact, cause, fix, guard, and testing details. The screenshots section is omitted, but no visual change requi…
Linked Issues check		Issue [#1085] requires cursor style assets to appear after a Nix Flake installation. In nix/package.nix, the install phase links public to dist, where Vite copies all source public/ assets. Th…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within issue [#1085]. The package change fixes asset installation, and the workflow change adds coverage for the same packaging failure and runs when relevant build inputs change. No …
Docstring Coverage		No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

.github/workflows/nix-build.yml (1)

186-187: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Verify nested public files, not only top-level entries.

The current loop accepts an existing directory even when files inside it are missing. Vite copies the public/ tree recursively, so this is a regression-detection gap, not evidence of a current packaging defect. Compare each source file with the packaged public/ tree.

🐛 Suggested fix

-          for entry in public/*; do
-            if [ ! -e "result/lib/openscreen/$entry" ]; then
-              echo "::error::$entry is missing from the package"
+          missing=0
+          while IFS= read -r -d '' src; do
+            rel=${src#public/}
+            if [ ! -f "result/lib/openscreen/public/$rel" ]; then
+              echo "::error::$src is missing from the package"
+              missing=$((missing + 1))
             fi
-          done
+          done < <(find public -type f -print0)
+
+          [ "$missing" -eq 0 ]

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Review comment at @.github/workflows/nix-build.yml around lines 186 - 187:
Update the packaging verification loop in the workflow to inspect every source
file under public/, including nested files, rather than only top-level entries.
Compare each file’s relative path against result/lib/openscreen/public/ and fail
the check when any packaged file is missing.

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Review comments at @.github/workflows/nix-build.yml:
- Line 47: Update the pull-request path filter in the workflow to include
public/** alongside vite.config.ts, so changes to assets under public/ trigger
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Review comments at @.github/workflows/nix-build.yml:
- Around line 186-187: Update the packaging verification loop in the workflow to
inspect every source file under public/, including nested files, rather than
only top-level entries. Compare each file’s relative path against
result/lib/openscreen/public/ and fail the check when any packaged file is
missing.

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@coderabbitai Re the nested-files nitpick: declined. public is a symlink to dist, so a nested file can only go missing if Vite drops it. The check guards against a top-level tree missing, as in #1085.

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@EtienneLescot Thanks for the guidance. The check targets missing top-level asset trees, not Vite’s recursive copy behavior. With public/ symlinked to dist/, that scope fits the regression in #1085. I withdraw the nested-file suggestion.

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Learnt from: EtienneLescot
URL: https://github.com/getopenscreen/openscreen/pull/1094

Timestamp: 2026-10-10T12:22:55.078Z
Learning: In getopenscreen/openscreen, nix/package.nix symlinks the installed public/ directory to dist/, which contains Vite-copied public assets. The public-asset check in .github/workflows/nix-build.yml intentionally checks top-level entries to catch missing asset trees, as reported in #1085. Do not require recursive file validation for this regression check.

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