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Gert Pellin - GPE cbed56b7f1 Desktop: write log records to standard error and a rotating log file (#1143)
* Desktop: write log records to standard error and a rotating log file

The desktop app installed no logger, so every log::warn!/log::error! in
the workspace was discarded: GPU startup fallbacks, a lost wgpu device,
the crash guard's panic report. A launch from a desktop menu has no
terminal either, so there was nothing to attach to a bug report.

apps/photocraft/src/logging.rs (no new dependency):
- standard error plus <settings dir>/logs/photocraft.log; each launch
  rotates the previous log to photocraft.1.log and .2.log, so the log of
  a run that crashed survives the next start; the file is capped at 16 MiB
- records logged before the settings directory is known are buffered
  (bounded) and written once the file is attached
- default levels: info for photocraft*, warn for everything else;
  RUST_LOG replaces them with env_logger-style directives
- never panics: an unusable directory or a failed write leaves standard
  error as the only sink

The logger is installed first in main (so the panic hook is recorded) and
the file is opened after argument parsing (--version and usage errors
leave no file). Documented in docs/development.md (Logs).

* Contributors: credit switch87 as Gert Pellin

* Desktop: report an unusable log folder through the logger

eprintln! panics when standard error is a broken pipe (a GUI launch on
Windows); log::warn! reaches standard error the same way once the file
sink has given up, and never panics. Same fix as storytold/vectorcraft#465.
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