AvengeMedia / AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell

Shortcuts to bar items from launcher

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Description

Thanks for the fantastic shell! Switching in from Omarchy and this has been an incredibly seamless experience so far.

## Feature Description
I have grown fond of 100% keyboard based navigation that Omarchy allows. In particular, their 'launcher' has shortcuts to all the system functions - such as power menu, WiFi, Bluetooth etc.

Would it be possible to extend the DMS launcher to do the same? Not yet very familiar with Go, but I can take a crack at it if this interests a large enough number of people.

A mock up UI made with nano banana (I would imagine this menu could be made visible by typing :, like / is used for search. vim style.):

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Searched for duplicate issue, couldn't find any.

## Use Case
Keyboard navigation.

## Compositor

Is this feature specific to one compositor?

- [x] All compositors
- [ ] niri
- [ ] Hyprland
- [ ] dwl (MangoWC)
- [ ] sway

## Proposed Solution
Hook up the options to the `dms ipc` commands. Should be fairly simple.

## Alternatives/Existing Solutions
Could hypothetically use walker or rofi etc. but I'd really rather not.

Contributor guide

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Research direction

No source file or test is named. Start by tracing the DMS launcher entry point and the existing `dms ipc` commands; clarify which system functions should appear, how the proposed `:` mode behaves, and how keyboard-only navigation should work across all compositors.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
cli, desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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