Share files and folders with the desktop file chooser (#6707)

Sharing a file or folder over LocalSend opened a terminal to run an fzf
pick over a find of the whole home directory, which is slow on a large
home, shows no previews, and looks nothing like the rest of the desktop.
The portal chooser is already how the other pickers here ask.

The chooser has a directory mode, so folder sharing asks for one the same
way, and neither entry needs a terminal to host a picker anymore.

A chooser that never opens is told apart from nobody picking anything, so
a portal failure says so rather than passing for a cancelled share.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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David Heinemeier Hansson
2026-08-11 14:24:17 +02:00
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 27d1b6bebc
commit 77bf2ef704
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@@ -22,13 +22,22 @@ elif (($# > 0)); then
FILE_ARRAY=("$@")
else
if [[ $MODE == "folder" ]]; then
# Pick a single folder from home directory
picked=$(find "$HOME" -type d 2>/dev/null | fzf)
select_args=(--title "Share folder" --directory)
else
# Pick one or more files from home directory
picked=$(find "$HOME" -type f 2>/dev/null | fzf --multi)
select_args=(--title "Share files" --multiple)
fi
[[ -z $picked ]] && exit 0
# Command substitution so the chooser's exit status survives: reading it
# through a process substitution reports success for a chooser that never
# opened, which is indistinguishable here from someone deciding not to share.
picked=$(omarchy-file-select "${select_args[@]}") || status=$?
if ((${status:-0} > 1)); then
omarchy-notification-send -g "" -u critical "Could not share" "The file chooser did not open"
exit 1
fi
[[ -n $picked ]] || exit 0
readarray -t FILE_ARRAY <<<"$picked"
fi