Integrated terminal

[kernelwhisperer]

We can use xterm.js to expose a terminal that has commands like dao act, dao exec, etc. (the dao cli).

Until the GUI is fully featured people need to use the CLI (which bundles dev commands as well) and which is a hassle to install.

Common use case: changing the quorum of a voting app.

Related: aragon/aragon-cli#583

[kernelwhisperer]

This could also be the very first node app we bring to aragon-desktop.

Currently if people want to make Aragon apps that use the Node API, they need to use the aragon-wrapper and make it from scratch, which is not very nice. This should improve for developers.

The only problem with this is that users are very exposed as there is no plan for sand-boxing and apps will be using the wrapper, and file-system directly, (being able to read keys stored on disk for example).

I suspect this can be achieved using docker though...

[sohkai]

If people want to make Aragon apps that use the Node API

I don't think this will ever be a goal, at least in the current form of the client.

[kernelwhisperer]

I'm not sure, but I think DappNode apps might be exactly what I have in mind.

E.g.: Installing and running ipfs, checking CPU temperatures, upgrading a geth node with a vote, etc.

[sohkai]

Closing this, as we are experimenting with an integrated console for organization actions in aragon/aragon.