Application settings

Fetchpier keeps application-wide preferences separate from workspace settings. Application settings apply to this installation and live in the app’s user-data folder; workspace settings travel with a workspace in .fetchpier/settings.json.

Open Application settings from the command palette or the application menu. Use Workspace settings instead for HTTP defaults, attachment limits, or workspace-scoped certificates.

Request timeout

The global request timeout limits how long a send may remain in flight. When the limit is reached, Fetchpier aborts the request and leaves the request tab open with an inline error so you can inspect or retry it. The fp CLI has an independent per-run --timeout option.

HTTP proxy

Fetchpier supports one application-wide HTTP proxy. Enable the proxy and enter its URL; credentials may be included in the URL. When enabled, every desktop request uses it while retaining the resolved HTTP version, redirect, TLS, and certificate settings that would apply to a direct connection.

Treat proxy credentials as machine-local secrets. The proxy setting belongs to the application, is not written to the workspace, and is not used by the fp CLI.

Appearance

Choose one of three application themes:

• System follows the operating-system theme and reacts to changes while Fetchpier is running.
• Light always uses the light palette.
• Dark always uses the dark palette.

The preference is applied from the first frame of the window and persists across launches. An invalid value in the settings file falls back to System instead of preventing startup.

The code editor has its own theme family setting. See Code editor.

Language

The desktop interface is available in English and Spanish. Fetchpier chooses the language in this order:

1. the explicit language saved in application settings;
2. the operating-system locale;
3. English.

Changing the language updates the interface and, on macOS, the application menu without a restart. Workspace files and the canonical MIT licence text are not translated.

Update checks

Fetchpier checks its published product catalogue only when you ask: open Check for updates in the application menu or the About dialog and click Check now. A newer version is reported without downloading or installing anything.

By default, Fetchpier also reminds you every 15 days by opening the updates dialog on launch. The reminder makes no network request by itself: the check still waits for your click. You can change the interval or turn the reminder off in application settings.

Failures are categorized (for example, no network or an invalid server response) rather than shown as a generic error. If both About-on-version-change and an automatic update prompt are due, About is shown first; Fetchpier will not display duplicate update prompts.

The catalogue request (an HTTPS GET to public.sincrum.com) is the only connection Fetchpier makes on its own account, and it only happens when you click Check now. See Privacy and network access.