Three coordinated changes that fix the "Waiting for browser…" hang
and unblock first-launch UX on the Tauri desktop build:
1. desktop/index.ts — DON'T mountWelcome unconditionally on first
launch. Before, an empty keychain (no key yet) forced the
welcome / sign-in screen on top of the editor, gating 100% of
the app behind an account. Now the editor opens directly:
compile + run + sim + save .vlx all work for free (they're
upstream OSS features), and the license check still runs in
the background just to populate state for the GraceBanner
(which shows for invalid keys — locked, tampered, in
soft/hard grace). Pro-only features (ESP32 QEMU download,
agent IA) prompt for license at use time, where it actually
matters. Matches the "try before you buy" expectation a
desktop install creates.
2. desktop/tauriBridge.ts — rewrite `openExternal` to try every
known IPC path in cascade order and log via the desktop debug
file which one worked. The previous implementation invoked
`plugin:shell|open` with `{ path: url }`, which silently
failed (no ACL match + wrong arg shape) and fell back to
`window.open`, which inside a Tauri webview is a no-op for
external URLs — the browser never opened. New cascade:
plugin:opener|open_url (paired with tauri-plugin-opener which
ships in this revision), then plugin:shell|open with both
`{ path, with: null }` and `{ url }` shapes, then the
window.__TAURI__.shell / opener high-level wrappers that
specific Tauri 2.x flag combos expose. Each attempt logged
via the dlog helper so the next operator can see exactly
which path was used (or that all failed) without devtools.
3. desktop/menu.ts — new `navigate-route` action type. Routes
bundled in the SPA (DocsPage, ExamplesPage, AboutPage) that
used to open velxio.dev in the system browser now navigate
in-window via history.pushState + popstate (mirrors the
locale-switch handler). Respects the current locale prefix
so `/examples` from `/es/editor` lands at `/es/examples`
instead of jumping back to English.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New `frontend/src/desktop/` module loaded only when VITE_DESKTOP=true.
Hosts the Tauri-bound UI that pure OSS doesn't need:
- tauriBridge.ts typed invoke / listen / openExternal / beginSignIn
wrappers with no-op fallbacks for `vite dev` outside
the Tauri webview.
- DesktopWelcomePage.tsx sign-in flow with browser handoff +
paste-key fallback; listens for
`velxio://auth-completed` from the shell.
- GraceBanner.tsx renders soft/hard grace banners driven by
`license_status` + `velxio://license-status`
emits from the background checkin loop.
Toggles `body.vlx-desktop-readonly` so the
editor's Save / Compile buttons disable
themselves via CSS in hard-grace.
- Esp32QemuPrompt.tsx one-time download modal when the user picks
an ESP32 board on a fresh install.
- index.ts mounts welcome conditionally and the side
panels unconditionally.
- desktop.css shared styles.
All entry points are no-ops outside Tauri so the existence of the
folder has zero effect on the OSS build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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