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ThomasK33 opened this issue Mar 6, 2025 · 0 comments · Fixed by #136
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Button Auto-Population for External Apps #94

ThomasK33 opened this issue Mar 6, 2025 · 0 comments · Fixed by #136
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Enable Coder Desktop to detect and display buttons for external applications automatically. Users desire a seamless, one-click experience for launching native applications such as RDP clients, Zed, Visual Studio Code, and more. This feature will allow Coder Desktop to show relevant buttons based on the configuration of the workspace template.

Initially, we want to display all coder_app's marked with external=true and a set url field that does not have an http or https scheme. (e.g., zed://, rdp://, etc.) as buttons.

This information can be obtained by retrieving the workspace's agent, enumerating all applications, and filtering Coder Desktop-side. When the button is clicked, it should delegate the task of opening the link to the operating system.

To keep the user interface simple and intuitive, we will display a maximum of five buttons, creating a consistent row height. In future iterations, we can explore other options, such as dropdown menus or collapsible sections.
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feat: add workspace apps (#136)
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Closes #94.

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https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0777d1c9-6183-487d-b24a-b2ad9639d75b



The cursor does not change to a pointing hand as it should when screen-recording, and the display name of the app is also shown on hover:
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As per the linked issue, this only shows the first five apps. If there's less than 5 apps, they won't be centered (I think this looks a bit better):

<img width="325" alt="image" src="https://github.com/%3Ca%20href="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/348c1b46-f8d5-4a32-8ba6-eb03d8125344">https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/348c1b46-f8d5-4a32-8ba6-eb03d8125344" />



Later designs will likely include a Workspace window where all the apps can be viewed, and potentially reordered to control what is shown on the tray.

EDIT: Web apps have been filtered out of the above examples, as we don't currently have a way to determine whether they will work properly via Coder Connect.
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