Windows: No app for link "webui"

[RubenKelevra]

• OS: Windows
• Version of IPFS Desktop 0.21.0
• WebUI commit: ipfs/ipfs-webui@a43dd23

Describe the bug

I got this popup in the app after clicking on the “Status” button in the left navigation bar.

This does not happen always. It first appeared after the update to 0.21.0, though.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to some other page
2. Click on “Status”
3. Get popup that Windows can't understand the link webui (probably webui:// is meant with that) and it asks if I wanna search the Windows Store for an App for that.

Expected behavior

Should not appear.

Screenshots

Additional context

Most of the time I can navigate to the status page fine. But sometimes this appears and is then reproduceable until I navigate a bit somewhere else around in the app.

Couldn't find a real consistent pattern yet when this bug happens.

LOGS

If possible:

1. From the "IPFS icon" menu in your menubar/system tray, go to Advanced → Open Logs Directory (for Linux users who do not have this menu, logs can be found in $HOME/.config/IPFS Desktop )
2. Find *.log files
3. Attach error.log and combined.log to this issue.

Neither error.log nor combined.log contain anything about this event.

[SgtPooki]

@RubenKelevra Long time no see! Thanks for reporting this error, I've been wanting to change how we render webui for a while.

It looks like we use a custom protocol handler with electron-serve and LoadUrl to load a url of that handler,

ipfs-desktop/src/webui/index.js

Line 20 in 7193abb

serve({ scheme: 'webui', directory: join(__dirname, '../../assets/webui') })

Instead, we should be using something like serve({ directory: webUiDirectory }) and then passing the webui Window to the returned function similar to filecoin-station/desktop:

https://github.com/filecoin-station/desktop/blob/0cecc2186a2009cdf5d6d55b17fb8a51df64fd57/main/index.js#L117-L119

[SgtPooki]

I also think this would fix #762