Renaming the app

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The dashboard’s name is a label, and every other label in this app is yours to change — so this one is too. Appearance → App name replaces the name shown in the navigation rail, in the window title, and anywhere else the app introduces itself to you.

The important half of this feature is what it does not touch. A rename changes presentation and nothing else: the folder your settings live in, the application id, the installer, and the update feed all keep the shipped name opencodex. That separation is deliberate — if the name you typed decided where your data was stored, renaming the app would orphan every setting, lock, authenticator entry and revision you had.

Where the control is

Open Appearance and find the App name card, directly above App logo. Or press Ctrl+Shift+F and type app name — the command palette finds it by its label, by its description, and by the words display name, save name and reset.

Control	What it does
Display name	The name to show. Pre-filled with the name currently in force, never blank.
Save name	Applies the name. Pressing `Enter` in the field does the same thing.
Reset to the shipped name	One action, back to `opencodex`. No confirmation ladder, nothing else touched.

The Save name button is disabled when there is nothing to save, and says which of the two reasons applies underneath it: the field is empty, or it already holds the name being shown.

What reads the display name

Every one of these updates the moment you press Save name — there is no restart, and no reload.

Surface	What it shows
Navigation rail	The name plate above the version line.
App logo, spoken	The logo’s accessible name, which on the collapsed rail is the only name of the app on screen.
Window title	What the taskbar, `Alt`+`Tab` and the window list show. The build identity beside it — version, build number, dim sum code name — is unchanged, so a renamed window is still identifiable.
First-run welcome	The onboarding wizard’s greeting.

What keeps the shipped name, always

Two categories, for two different reasons.

Identity, because moving it would move your data:

Thing	Where it actually comes from
Application-data folder	Electron’s `app.getPath("userData")`, derived from `productName` in `electron-builder.yml` at build time.
Application id	`appId` in `electron-builder.yml` (`com.opencodex.desktop`).
Package name	`name` in `package.json`.
Installer and update feed	The release artifacts, built from the same two files.
Browser-storage keys	Literal constants (`ocx-m3:v1`, `ocx-applogo:v1`, `ocx-appname:v1`, `ocx-m3:revisions`), each declared beside the store that uses it.

None of these is built from a name, and none of them reads the rename setting. A user who renames the app and then looks for their settings has not lost them, because the rename never went near them.

Outward reports, because a reader has to know what software they are looking at:

Diagnostics, crash logs, and anything you file as an issue send opencodex. A bug report titled “Mum’s Robot v2.7.42 crashes on startup” is a report nobody can act on. The card says so in as many words, so this is never a surprise.

What counts as a name

A name is accepted after normalization, which is applied both when you save it and again every time it is read back from storage — a hand-edited profile gets the same treatment as the field.

Trimmed, with runs of whitespace collapsed to single spaces.
Capped at 60 characters, counted as code points, so a name ending in an emoji is never cut in half.
Control characters, bidirectional overrides and zero-width characters are stripped. These are removed because the name is written into the window title and into an accessible label: a newline would break the title, and a bidi override could make the version string beside it read backwards.
A name that normalizes to nothing is refused, and the card says so rather than silently treating an empty field as a reset.
Typing opencodex back in is treated as a reset — it is the same request the reset button makes.

Language, funny level, and history

The card’s copy obeys the app’s language modes (English, 廣東話, bilingual) and both funny-level sliders like any other copy — the sliders themselves live on the dashboard’s Language & voice screen, described in Web Dashboard. What the level never changes is the facts: which name is in force, that identity does not move, and that diagnostics use the shipped name are stated at every level, from level 1 to level 5.

Every rename and every reset is recorded in Version history as a settings revision, carrying the previous name, so a rename can be reviewed and undone like any other change.

Where the setting is stored

In this browser profile’s local storage, under ocx-appname:v1, as {"name":"…"}. It is local to the machine and the profile: it is never sent anywhere, never included in an export, and never synchronized. Clearing this site’s storage — or the application-data folder, in the desktop shell — returns the app to the shipped name along with every other local preference.

Verifying it

Rename the app and watch the navigation rail change without a reload.
Check the taskbar or Alt+Tab: the window title carries the new name and the same build identity.
Collapse the window below 1240px so the rail shows icons only, and confirm a screen reader still announces the app by the new name.
Press Reset to the shipped name and confirm all three return to opencodex in one action.
Confirm nothing else moved: your providers, appearance settings, locks and history are all still there, because none of them was ever addressed by name.