[qinghuidaqzp]

Windows has daemon and CLI support, but its users cannot browse the live team directory in a desktop window. This adds an opt-in native Windows directory using the project's existing windows-sys dependency.

No new crates: Cargo.lock is byte-for-byte identical to upstream main@fea09c5. The implementation uses Win32 list views, edit controls, buttons and the Windows clipboard API. The previous Tao/Wry stack, embedded HTML/JavaScript and frontend test runner have been removed (110 dependency packages removed). The desktop feature only enables additional bindings in the existing windows-sys package.

Build with cargo build --features desktop --locked, then run reason-network desktop or double-click that build. The window shows team/machine connectivity, session addresses, projects/branches, activity, delivery tier and local unread counts. It supports Unicode search, Working/Unread filters, refresh, selected-address copying, and explicit team-link copying. Native controls provide keyboard navigation and DPI-aware layout. A failed daemon connection is shown as offline or stale, and polling reconnects automatically.

The view reuses Link::existing() and bounded Who/Link requests. It does not start the daemon, register an agent, consume messages or modify configuration. Updates and commands use bounded channels; closing the window aborts polling and leaves the daemon running. Display labels are bounded and sanitized; copied addresses must exactly match the directory and contain no NUL. Clipboard text is transferred as UTF-16 through the native API without launching a subprocess.

Validation

On Windows, based on upstream main@fea09c5:

• cargo fmt --check
• cargo clippy --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings
• cargo clippy --all-targets --features desktop --locked -- -D warnings
• cargo test --locked and cargo test --features desktop --locked: 251 tests passed in each configuration
• cargo build --features desktop --locked
• Regression tests cover exact address matching/NUL rejection, local unread identity, Unicode/case-insensitive filtering, and safe display labels.
• Actual native window with an isolated daemon/profile: live directory, unread filter, Chinese path search, no-match/empty states, Ctrl+F and Tab navigation, exact clipboard address comparison, team-link copying, offline/stale state, automatic reconnect, and closing independently of the daemon.
• Database checks confirmed both fixture messages remained unread and the Desktop registered no agent session.
• git diff origin/main -- Cargo.lock is empty. Windows CI checks/tests the feature; all three platforms check the default build.

This remains a draft for maintainer scope/UX review. Windows-only; no installer, autostart, message composer or approval UI. Real multi-machine UI and long-duration resource tests have not been run. The new commit's CI status is in Checks; no pending run is counted as passed.

[larstalian]

Thanks for this, a desktop directory on Windows is a nice idea, and the PR is clearly put together with care.

Before we review it in depth, one thing to flag: it adds tao and wry (a webview stack), which brings in a lot of new crates to Cargo.lock, even behind a feature flag. Reason Network runs on everyone's machines and updates itself, so we keep its dependencies to a small core and look closely at every new one. We're pausing this PR while we decide whether a webview dependency fits. I'll come back here with an answer either way.