App Management

Placeholder — pending native installers (Phase 7)

This page covers installing, updating, and uninstalling Studio as a native desktop application (.dmg / .msi). Those installers are not yet available, so this page is a stub. It will be written when the installers ship. For now, install and manage Studio with pip — see Installation.

When the native installers are released, this page will cover:

  • Installing — running the macOS .dmg (drag to Applications) and the Windows .msi installer, and the first-launch security prompts (Gatekeeper / SmartScreen) for a signed app.
  • Updating — how to move to a newer release, and whether updates are manual or checked automatically.
  • Uninstalling — removing the app cleanly on each platform.
  • Where files live — the location of settings, recent-files history, API keys (OS keychain), and any cached data, on macOS and Windows.
  • System requirements — supported OS versions and disk footprint (the bundle includes Python, Qt, and the scientific stack).

In the meantime, the pip-installed Studio is managed like any Python package:

pip install --upgrade "xslope[gui]"     # update
pip uninstall xslope                    # remove

Settings and credentials for the pip install are stored by the OS (Qt QSettings and the system keychain) and persist across upgrades.