Guides

How the market and DSH behave, and what to do when something looks wrong. Each guide answers one question.

• Why an update says "waiting": the release-age wait

  A new plugin version is held for a set time before DSH will install it. What the wait is, why it exists, how dsh web and the desktop app differ, and how to change it.

• "Installed, not in effect": what each plugin state means

  Every status the Installed tab can show — in effect, restart needed, incompatible, library, failed — what it means and what to do about it.

• What the permission labels on a plugin mean

  Plugin pages list what the code appears to do: read files, use the network, run commands. Each label in plain terms, and what a static scan can and cannot tell you.

• Desktop app or dsh web: where your plugins live

  The desktop app and dsh web each keep their own plugin list. How to install in each, and why a plugin you installed may seem to be missing.

• "The plugin market stopped running": what happened and what to do

  Why the market page can report that it stopped after an install or update, what to try in order, and what happened to the operation you were running.