launcher: better empty text

Also reload wallpapers when path changes

modules/launcher/ContentList.qml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ pragma ComponentBehavior: Bound
 import "root:/widgets"
 import "root:/services"
 import "root:/config"
+import "root:/utils"
 import Quickshell
 import QtQuick
 import QtQuick.Controls
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ Item {
 
             PropertyChanges {
                 root.currentList: wallpaperList.item
-                root.implicitWidth: Math.max(Config.launcher.sizes.itemWidth, wallpaperList.implicitWidth)
+                root.implicitWidth: Math.max(Config.launcher.sizes.itemWidth * 1.2, wallpaperList.implicitWidth)
                 root.implicitHeight: Config.launcher.sizes.wallpaperHeight
                 wallpaperList.active: true
             }
@@ -107,41 +108,43 @@ Item {
         }
     }
 
-    Item {
+    Row {
         id: empty
 
         opacity: root.currentList?.count === 0 ? 1 : 0
         scale: root.currentList?.count === 0 ? 1 : 0.5
 
-        implicitWidth: icon.width + text.width + Appearance.spacing.small
+        spacing: Appearance.spacing.normal
-        implicitHeight: icon.height
+        padding: Appearance.padding.large
 
         anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
         anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
 
         MaterialIcon {
-            id: icon
+            text: root.state === "wallpapers" ? "wallpaper_slideshow" : "manage_search"
-
-            text: "manage_search"
             color: Colours.palette.m3onSurfaceVariant
             font.pointSize: Appearance.font.size.extraLarge
 
             anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
         }
 
-        StyledText {
+        Column {
-            id: text
-
-            anchors.left: icon.right
-            anchors.leftMargin: Appearance.spacing.small
             anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
 
-            text: qsTr("No results")
+            StyledText {
+                text: root.state === "wallpapers" ? qsTr("No wallpapers found") : qsTr("No results")
                 color: Colours.palette.m3onSurfaceVariant
                 font.pointSize: Appearance.font.size.larger
                 font.weight: 500
             }
 
+            StyledText {
+                text: root.state === "wallpapers" && Wallpapers.list.length === 0 ? qsTr("Try putting some wallpapers in %1").arg(Paths.shortenHome(Config.paths.wallpaperDir)) : qsTr("Try searching for something else")
+                color: Colours.palette.m3onSurfaceVariant
+                font.pointSize: Appearance.font.size.normal
+            }
+        }
+
         Behavior on opacity {
             NumberAnimation {
                 duration: Appearance.anim.durations.normal

services/Wallpapers.qml

@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ Singleton {
     }
 
     Process {
+        id: getWallsProc
+
         running: true
         command: ["find", Config.paths.wallpaperDir, "-type", "d", "-path", '*/.*', "-prune", "-o", "-not", "-name", '.*', "-type", "f", "-print"]
         stdout: StdioCollector {
@@ -99,6 +101,14 @@ Singleton {
         }
     }
 
+    Connections {
+        target: Config.paths
+
+        function onWallpaperDirChanged(): void {
+            getWallsProc.running = true;
+        }
+    }
+
     Variants {
         id: wallpapers
 

utils/Paths.qml

@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ Singleton {
 
     readonly property url imagecache: `${cache}/imagecache`
 
+    function expandTilde(path: string): string {
+        return strip(path.replace("~", root.home.toString()));
+    }
+
+    function shortenHome(path: string): string {
+        return path.replace(strip(root.home.toString()), "~");
+    }
+
     function strip(path: url): string {
         return path.toString().replace("file://", "");
     }