search: copy result to clipboard if requested

Some search providers such as GNOME Characters want to copy search
results to clipboard.  However, on Wayland, clipboards are only
accessible from applications that have a visible surface on display.

This patch allows a search provider to request the shell to copy a
search result to clipboard when 'clipboardText' is included in the meta
of the result.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775099

diff --git a/js/ui/remoteSearch.js b/js/ui/remoteSearch.js
index baeaa126908960147b48c294df35cbf37697a6be..4f376bc31c38ba0526c0e3c0b2cd74308fdc7a96 100644 (file)
--- a/js/ui/remoteSearch.js
+++ b/js/ui/remoteSearch.js
@@ -278,7 +278,8 @@ const RemoteSearchProvider = new Lang.Class({
                                name: metas[i]['name'],
                                description: metas[i]['description'],
                                createIcon: Lang.bind(this,
-                                                     this.createIcon, metas[i]) });
+                                                     this.createIcon, metas[i]),
+                               clipboardText: metas[i]['clipboardText'] });
         }
         callback(resultMetas);
     },

diff --git a/js/ui/search.js b/js/ui/search.js
index 2ea1afb62e320b532b0ad4c3f5ada822160419e5..4d29e59efbefc04e77f1c8985759b5ffb357626e 100644 (file)
--- a/js/ui/search.js
+++ b/js/ui/search.js
@@ -152,6 +152,8 @@ const SearchResultsBase = new Lang.Class({
 
         this._resultDisplays = {};
 
+        this._clipboard = St.Clipboard.get_default();
+
         this._cancellable = new Gio.Cancellable();
     },
 
@@ -181,6 +183,8 @@ const SearchResultsBase = new Lang.Class({
 
     _activateResult: function(result, id) {
         this.provider.activateResult(id, this._terms);
+        if (result.metaInfo.clipboardText)
+            this._clipboard.set_text(St.ClipboardType.CLIPBOARD, result.metaInfo.clipboardText);
         Main.overview.toggle();
     },