proper closing, metadata file locations moved

electron-ui/src/main/main.ts

@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ const createWindow = async () => {
       label: 'Quit',
       click: () => {
         pythonManager.stop();
+        tray?.destroy();
+        mainWindow.close();
+        mainWindow.destroy();
         app.quit();
       },
     },
@@ -160,9 +163,9 @@ app.on('window-all-closed', () => {
 app
   .whenReady()
   .then(() => {
-    if (app.isPackaged) {
-      pythonManager.start();
-    }
+    // if (app.isPackaged) {
+    pythonManager.start();
+    // }
     createWindow();
     app.on('activate', () => {
       // On macOS it's common to re-create a window in the app when the

electron-ui/src/main/service.ts

@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ export default class PythonSubprocessManager {
 
   stop(): void {
     if (this.process) {
+      // for some reason, process.kill() doens't work well with flask. todo: investigate further
+      // spawn('taskkill', ['/pid', `${this.process.pid}`, '/f', '/t']);
       this.process.kill();
       this.process = null;
     }