My only question for now is if this is tied to having something running in a tray or not?

thanks for the question @arj! I suppose you don't like trayicons? May I ask what aspect of them you find anoying? I personally find try icons more bareable than terminal windows with long running processes...

unfinished thoughts: node/npm doesn't have something like conditional installs or build flags, right? The idea would be to have tui uropod and tray uropod modes to get the same thing, functionality wise.

With the current use of the Tray API it might be doable to shim an alternate UI like below but at some point it might be weird to support both...

$ scuttleshell

Welcome... 

Actions:
(1) Do this
(2) Do that
(3) Toggle foo

> please choose your action:

Personally I think scuttle-shell should add next to nothing to what stock sbot can do on it's own. Meaning: people prefering to run sbot server manually should still be fine but they might need to tinker with installing plugins on their own. The oop plugins api will go into sbot not scuttle-shell. So everybody should be fine in the long run.