The generated logo asset carried both an opaque square canvas and an inner rounded tile, so the desktop empty state and sidebar rendered a visible nested background. Rebuilt the canonical app icon with transparent outside corners, one white rounded badge, and a centered mark, then regenerated the Tauri icon set and docs raster assets from that source.
Constraint: Existing desktop views consume /app-icon.png directly with no wrapper background to remove.
Rejected: Add CSS masking around each img usage | would leave native app icons and docs assets with the same nested canvas problem.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Directive: Keep desktop/src-tauri/app-icon.png as the canonical 1024 RGBA source before regenerating platform icons.
Tested: cd desktop && bun run build; npm run --loglevel=error docs:build; git diff --check; sips alpha and size checks; iconutil icns size ladder; Chrome DevTools light and forced-dark screenshots.
Not-tested: full bun run verify gate, per prior instruction to skip local gate for this logo pass.
The desktop app and documentation need to present the new logo consistently, so the canonical 1024px source icon now feeds the Tauri icon family, desktop public assets, README images, and VitePress brand imagery.
Constraint: Tauri bundle icons are generated assets and must be refreshed from the source icon rather than relying on README or public image replacement alone
Rejected: Rename logo paths | existing README, desktop, and docs references can keep stable paths and pick up the new files directly
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Regenerate desktop/src-tauri/icons whenever desktop/src-tauri/app-icon.png changes
Tested: cd desktop && bun run build; npm run --loglevel=error docs:build; git diff --check; iconutil expanded icon.icns size ladder
Not-tested: full local quality gate per request
