Replaced Fuzzel with QML for clipboard and emoji pickers

[Brimx]

I've recently been experimenting with caelestia, and I discovered that fuzzel breaks the visual aesthetic of the whole system. IFor that reason, I built a new clipboard and emoji picker (visually, but still the fuzzy search)

• The new clipboard manager now provides a full preview of the selected item, whether it's an image or text
• The shortcuts (e.g., Ctrl+Alt+V to delete items) are still supported and adapted

-An enhanced emoji picker, now with categories and a better organization

(Keyboard navigation is improved in both, though mouse input is still supported

[riadloukili]

+1. I hit the same itch and ended up building a clipboard picker in QML too, so here's a second take for comparison. Screenshots:

It's a standalone Quickshell config for now, but it's built to look and behave like the shell:

• Look: caelestia's own tokens (rounding, spacing, item sizes, motion curves), Google Sans Flex + Material Symbols, colours read live from scheme.json, blurred translucent surface.
• Search: the same fzf.js the launcher already ships, in extended mode, so fzf's syntax works ('exact ^start end$ !not a|b), with matched characters highlighted from the positions it returns.
• Preview: full text (scrollable, selectable) or the image, decoded only for the highlighted entry.
• Actions: Enter copies, Ctrl+O opens links/paths with xdg-open, Ctrl+D deletes; a delete mode (Ctrl+Shift+D) lets you mark several entries (Tab/click, Ctrl+A for everything matching) and delete them in one go. Esc steps back: clears the search, then leaves delete mode, then closes.
• Help: Ctrl+H toggles a row of shortcuts drawn as keycaps.

I'm still thinking about adding some additional features like possibility to "edit" images in clipboard (which would open them in swappy or something similar) as well as syntax highlighting for clipboard entries that have code.

I haven't done an emoji picker, so @Brimx's categories idea covers ground mine doesn't. If the maintainers are interested in having this in the shell, I'd be happy to help port it to a proper module (reusing Searcher, Tokens and Colours instead of my copies), or to join forces on Brimx's version.

[Brimx]

Mine was designed to cover the same functions as fuzzel, but yours is a very complete picker, especially the actions. Looks so good. Porting both modules definetely sounds like the best approach, I really like your clipboard picker a lot.

[riadloukili]

If the maintainer is open to having it ported into the repo, I’d be happy to do that. Otherwise, I might turn it into a standalone repo instead of keeping it deeply rooted in my dotfiles and dependent on my NixOS config.

Meanwhile, if you wanna give it a quick spin, it’s here: https://github.com/riadloukili/dotfiles/tree/main/clip-picker

I’ve added a few more features since my last comment. The help bar will guide you through all of them. It currently depends on having swappy installed and the $EDITOR environment variable set.

[Brimx]

I noticed that, actually, I was thinking about modifying swappy. Thanks, I'll use the clipboard picker. it looks way better and offers more features than mine, though I need to fix and improve some minor bugs with the emoji picker, and then, I'll show you.

Are you on a desktop or a laptop? Mine is an Asus, there are some workarounds for that, even a charge limiter in QML. It's simple, very simple.

[riadloukili]

I’m currently on a Lenovo Yoga Laptop, all my config is at https://github.com/riadloukili/nixos-config/tree/rewrite (note rewrite branch)

[Brimx]

@soramanew can you take a look at this? It could fit in the shell, and @riadloukili would be happy to add his modules and port them. I'd be happy to help as well.

[dxnnv]

This has been planned for a while as part of a larger launcher redesign, although it's gotten backlogged for quite a while due to other higher-priority items (e.g. plugins, library rewrite, etc). Regardless, we still plan to do this in the future, and it hasn't been abandoned.