dsh-desktop-launcher

Launching the dsh Web UI usually means opening a terminal, running the correct command, waiting for the server to become ready, and then manually pasting the address into a browser. Repeated daily, that chain of steps adds up, and it becomes awkward when you need a non-terminal colleague to simply open the harness UI. dsh-desktop-launcher collapses the entire flow into a single desktop icon: on macOS it generates dsh.app carrying the official black-whale mark, and on Linux it drops a dsh.desktop entry into the application menu. A double-click starts the service and opens the browser automatically.

The plugin loads as a bundle and idempotently reconciles desktop-side artifacts on every harness start—the start script, the .app or .desktop file, and icon resources. It is zero-dependency at roughly 147 KB, installs no terminal commands, and never touches PATH. A failed installation only produces a log line and never crashes the harness itself. Every generated file carries a managed-by marker; unchanged configurations are skipped entirely, and any pre-existing file is backed up before replacement, so nothing is ever silently overwritten.

This plugin is a good fit for developers who treat dsh as their daily work environment and want a double-click launch experience, as well as for team setups where a non-terminal user needs quick access to the Web UI. If you also want a terminal launcher, pair it with the separate dsh-launcher package; the two plugins are fully independent and never bundled together. macOS and Linux are ready out of the box; Windows is not supported.