Feature Enhancement: Allow users to manually restart, or manually start, bundled go daemon within the app (not only via tray icon) #2293
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effort/days
Estimated to take multiple days, but less than a week
exp/beginner
Can be confidently tackled by newcomers
good first issue
Good issue for new contributors
help wanted
Seeking public contribution on this issue
P3
Low: Not priority right now
status/deferred
Conscious decision to pause or backlog
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
go daemon startup is tightly coupled to app startup. If you start IPFS desktop and the node fails to start due to repo lock or other issue, users have no ability to get things working without a full app restart.
We're all familiar with this screen which is indicative that a full app restart, or separate daemon start (via CLI) is required:
Describe the solution you'd like
ipfs go daemon status should be toggle-able, restartable, stoppable, etc, from the ipfs desktop application
Describe alternatives you've considered
N/A
Additional context
Related: #1977
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