From 11f73e9e6aa6ac3343750590e00b53a6dd70fe2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rope <fredrik@nordhammer.it>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 12:24:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] launcher: search ~/Documents and ~/Downloads, not all of
 $HOME

Searching $HOME buried real results under game assets and nixos config
files. A missing root is harmless: fd reports it on stderr, which nothing
reads, and still searches the rest at exit 0.
---
 settings/quickshell.nix | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/settings/quickshell.nix b/settings/quickshell.nix
index 362bad9..a5c434a 100644
--- a/settings/quickshell.nix
+++ b/settings/quickshell.nix
@@ -1699,18 +1699,26 @@ in
                         open = false;
                     }
 
-                    // ── File search: one fd run per settled keystroke, scoped to
-                    // $HOME and nothing above it. No index and no daemon —
-                    // --max-results lets fd exit the moment it has enough, which
-                    // is what keeps this feeling instant, and results are never
-                    // stale the way a nightly updatedb is.
+                    // ── File search: one fd run per settled keystroke. No index
+                    // and no daemon — --max-results lets fd exit the moment it has
+                    // enough, which is what keeps this feeling instant, and
+                    // results are never stale the way a nightly updatedb is.
                     //
-                    // Dotfiles and dot-directories are skipped (fd's default —
-                    // there is deliberately no --hidden here). That is both what
-                    // you want from a launcher and most of the speed: ~/.cache,
-                    // ~/.local/share/Steam, ~/.var and every .git tree are the
-                    // bulk of the files under $HOME and none of them are things
-                    // you search for by name.
+                    // Scoped to ~/Documents and ~/Downloads, not all of $HOME.
+                    // Searching $HOME drowned the results in game assets and
+                    // nixos config files — technically matches, never what was
+                    // being looked for. These two are where documents a person
+                    // goes hunting for by name actually live.
+                    //
+                    // A missing directory is fine: fd reports it on stderr, which
+                    // nothing reads, and still searches the rest at exit 0.
+                    //
+                    // Dotfiles and dot-directories are also skipped (fd's default,
+                    // there is deliberately no --hidden here).
+                    readonly property var fdRoots: [
+                        Quickshell.env("HOME") + "/Documents",
+                        Quickshell.env("HOME") + "/Downloads"
+                    ]
                     property var fileHits: []
                     property string fdQuery: ""
                     // A run cut short still flushes whatever stdout it had, and
@@ -1761,12 +1769,11 @@ in
                             Commands.fd, "--absolute-path", "--ignore-case",
                             "--type", "f", "--type", "d",
                             "--max-results", String(fdMax),
-                            // node_modules is the one big junk tree that isn't
-                            // hidden, so it still needs naming. The old .git /
-                            // .cache / .steam excludes are gone with --hidden.
+                            // node_modules is the one junk tree that is neither
+                            // hidden nor outside these roots.
                             "--exclude", "node_modules",
-                            pat, Quickshell.env("HOME")
-                        ];
+                            pat
+                        ].concat(fdRoots);
                         fdProc.running = true;
                     }