Nariman Jelveh
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`puter.ui.launchApp(name, args)` had no way to say "I need this app's API, not its window". That matters because we create and show an app's window before the app's own code runs, so an app launched purely to serve another one cannot avoid appearing on screen: the best it can do is call `puter.ui.hideWindow()` once it boots, which reads as a window flashing open and shut. In dashboard mode it was worse than a flash — the child maximized into the tab and minimized its parent behind it, so asking a service app a question took the user's app away from them. So `launchApp` now accepts `background: true`, and the window starts hidden. The app is otherwise entirely normal: it keeps its taskbar item, so a user can see that it is running, show it, or close it, and it can show itself with `puter.ui.showWindow()` whenever it has something to say. Only a literal `true` counts, since the flag arrives over IPC from another app. The decision now lives in one predicate, `starts_hidden(app_info, options)`, which folds this together with the existing app-level `background` flag and is used everywhere the old flag was read — including the dashboard's minimize-the-parent branch. `show_in_taskbar` deliberately still keys on the app-level flag alone: an app that is always windowless has nothing to put in the taskbar, while a background *launch* should stay visible there. Existing callers are unaffected: with `background` unset, both paths evaluate exactly as they did.
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Puter is an advanced, open-source, self-hostable internet computer designed to be feature-rich, fast, and highly extensible.
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