Fixes#11673: on macOS the DMG launcher appeared to launch nothing. After
installing, the app sat in the menu bar with no window, nothing listening
on localhost:8080, and empty log files, because nothing ever started the
server unless the unrelated 'start on system boot' option was enabled.
- Start the LocalAI server automatically when the launcher opens and right
after a fresh install. The new auto_start_server config key defaults to
enabled and gets a settings checkbox; the legacy auto_start key was never
honored nor exposed, so every existing launcher.json carries an
unintentional false and is deliberately left behind.
- Fix the welcome window suppressing itself: its 'don't show this again'
checkbox was initialized with the inverted value, and SetChecked fired
the change callback which persisted ShowWelcome=false on the very first
showing.
- Surface auto-start failures through the systray startup-error dialog,
since there is no visible window during auto-start.
- Pass --app-version to fyne package so the app stops reporting itself as
version 0.0.0 in the About box.
- Document the first-launch flow (menu bar app, auto-start, WebUI URL) in
the macOS getting-started page.
- Repair two launcher specs that never ran in CI: a *bool matched against
BeTrue and a /tmp assertion that trips on Linux where the test tempdir
itself lives under /tmp.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Ettore Di Giacinto