What is desktop?

CodeDrobe Desktop is an app for macOS and Windows that lets you change the visual look of AI coding desktop apps, currently OpenAI Codex, WorkBuddy, QoderWork, and TRAE SOLO. Instead of editing configuration files by hand, you open CodeDrobe, browse an online store of themes, and apply one to a supported app with a single click. Themes only change appearance, so the underlying app and your data are never touched, and you can switch back to the original look at any time. The app is a full rebuild of an earlier version, with a new interface built using Tailwind CSS and shadcn-style components that match the look of the CodeDrobe website. A single theme package can now target several apps at once, and shared logic for detecting and applying themes lives in a separate engine called codedrobe-core. You can sign in with a CodeDrobe account using your system browser, which lets you like themes and keep a synced list of favorites. The website can also send a special link that opens the desktop app and applies a theme after you confirm it. Beyond browsing and applying themes, the app checks for newer versions of themes you already have installed, verifies every downloaded theme against a checksum before importing it, and lets you restore any app's original appearance from a status list or the system tray. You can import and export theme files, manually set an app's install location if it is not detected automatically, and switch the interface language between Chinese and English. The app can also update itself in place on both macOS and Windows. To run the project locally, you install its dependencies with npm and start it, and there are npm commands for running checks, packaging the app, and building installers for both macOS and Windows. The source code is released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, which means that if you distribute a modified build, the changed source files must stay available under the same license, though this does not cover the CodeDrobe name or bundled artwork.