Open the user interface in web browser automatically during startup

inexorgame-obsolete / deprecated-cube-engine-inexor

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Open the user interface in web browser automatically during startup #522

Open aschaeffer opened 6 years ago

aschaeffer commented 6 years ago

Open the user interface in the default web browser as soon as following requirements are fulfilled:

The system is a desktop
Inexor Flex has started successfully
User Interface ui-flex has been cloned/updated

The behaviour is adjustable via the flag --start-minimized.

Profile	`start-minimized`
client	`false`
server	`true`
serverfarm	`true`
devenv	`true`

Croydon commented 6 years ago

👍 For the --start-minimized flag. I would also like a permanent setting for this.

I hate it if when application start unasked my browser.

aschaeffer commented 6 years ago

The problem to solve is that the user doesn't have a visual feedback after starting Inexor Flex the first time. Ideally, ui-flex is ready within seconds and we can show the download progress (media repositories and release download). The --start-minimized flag is meant to be used on command line and profile.toml.

Croydon commented 6 years ago

It's fine by me when opening the UI in a browser is default, as long as anyone can disable it permanentely via settings.

Croydon commented 6 years ago

This should probably only be the case for the dev profile?

inexor-flex is starting directly the core client and non-devs don't care for more most of the time.

a-teammate commented 6 years ago

Yes, this should be a setting for the instance as well. It would be a good idea to inform the user prominently in the start screen of inexor flex to be able to change that setting by deselecting a checkbox