Ethen Code desktop

The desktop app is the planned home of Ethen Code on your machine: an Electron app that hosts the V2 window and carries the local daemon inside its bundle. It is not released yet; this page describes the plan as built on the branch.

The app

• Framework: Electron, with a prebuilt main-process bundle — the packaged

app never transpiles at runtime.

• Identity: Ethen Desktop Code (com.ethen.desktop), version 0.1.0 on the

branch.

• Distribution: a signed, notarized macOS disk image. macOS comes first;

Windows and Linux follow later.

• Bundle contents: the Electron shell plus the local runtime under

local-runtime, so the daemon starts with the app and needs no separate install.

The V2 window

The desktop window renders the V2 console: a title bar carrying the Ethen Code brand and a runtime-health indicator, a body with a sidebar, a main task surface, and an optional context panel, and a terminal dock for local terminal sessions. Window states — sidebar collapsed, context panel open, dock open — follow the view contracts on the branch.

First launch (planned)

The release plan launches the signed image on a clean macOS user, installs from the disk image, and walks first launch: daemon start, pairing with the web zone, and GitHub connection. Until a signed image is published, running from source is the only path, and it is a developer path, not a release.

Unsigned builds

Branch builds are unsigned. macOS Gatekeeper treats unsigned apps as untrusted, which is one of the reasons there is no public download yet: publishing starts only when signing and notarization credentials are in place and the image staples cleanly.

Related guides

• [Install Ethen Code](./install)
• [The local daemon](./daemon)