Ability to open a specific preference page from a link

[mook-as]

Problem Description

While doing the diagnostics, it would be good to be able to link to specific preference panes (and ideally even specific preference items) so that we can more easily let the user fix things.

Proposed Solution

Something like a x-rd-preferences:// protocol handler, or somehow handle it in app://, or anything of the sort.

Additional Information

This seems better than changing the preference immediately, which wouldn't let the user know what happened.

[jandubois]

Proposed Solution

Something like a x-rd-preferences:// protocol handler, or somehow handle it in app://, or anything of the sort.

I think doing this in-app would be preferable; otherwise we have to create custom protocol handlers for all platforms.

Additional Information

This seems better than changing the preference immediately, which wouldn't let the user know what happened.

I think it depends. When the fix action is "Add ~/.rd/bin to the end of the PATH", then I think we should just do it for the user. The diagnostic needs to be verbose enough to mention the current setting, and the new setting it would change to.

I would be diagnostics like "You allocated 100% of the CPUs to Rancher Desktop; reduce the allocation to leave something for the OS and other applications" that would require the user to make a choice.

[mook-as]

I think doing this in-app would be preferable; otherwise we have to create custom protocol handlers for all platforms.

The protocol handler is just scoped to within the app (we wouldn't ever handle links from other apps).