Add Copy file path to Nautilus right-click context menu

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Summary

Adds a "Copy file path" / "Copy file paths" option to Nautilus' right-click context menu for files and directories.

• Single file → shows "Copy file path"
• Multiple selection → shows "Copy file paths" (newline-separated)
• Copies absolute path(s) to clipboard via wl-copy

Changes

• default/nautilus-python/extensions/copy-filepath.py — new nautilus-python extension
• install/config/nautilus-python.sh — install script updated to copy the new extension

Testing

• Right-click any file/folder → "Copy file path" appears
• Select multiple → "Copy file paths" appears
• Clicking copies the absolute path(s) to your clipboard
• Works on both files and directories
• Gracefully degrades if wl-copy is not installed

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Add migration to deploy new Nautilus extension on updates

This commit only adds copy-filepath.py to the install-time copy script, but Omarchy updates apply user config changes through migrations (bin/omarchy-update-perform runs omarchy-migrate, and prior Nautilus extension additions were shipped via migrations such as migrations/1773017819.sh and migrations/1778099894.sh). Without a new migration sourcing install/config/nautilus-python.sh, existing installations that update will not receive the new context-menu action.

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Pull request overview

This PR adds a new nautilus-python extension that provides a “Copy file path(s)” context-menu action in Nautilus, copying absolute selected paths to the clipboard via wl-copy.

Changes:

• Add a new Nautilus MenuProvider extension to copy selected file/directory paths to the clipboard.
• Update the nautilus-python install/config script to install the new extension.
• Update RetroArch install/remove scripts to replace libretro-vice-git with multiple libretro-vice-* packages (note: this is currently not reflected in the PR description).

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File	Description
install/config/nautilus-python.sh	Installs the newly added Nautilus extension into the user extensions directory.
default/nautilus-python/extensions/copy-filepath.py	Adds the “Copy file path(s)” Nautilus context-menu action and pipes selected absolute paths into wl-copy.
bin/omarchy-remove-gaming-retroarch	Updates the RetroArch removal package list by expanding VICE core packages.
bin/omarchy-install-gaming-retroarch	Updates the RetroArch install package list by expanding VICE core packages.

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default/nautilus-python/extensions/copy-filepath.py:54

• Gio.Subprocess.new([...]) can raise GLib.Error (e.g., if wl-copy disappears from PATH, is not executable, or fails to spawn). Since the PR claims graceful degradation, it would be safer to resolve wl_copy = shutil.which("wl-copy") once and use that full path, and wrap subprocess creation/communication in try/except GLib.Error to avoid crashing the extension.

        proc = Gio.Subprocess.new(
            ["wl-copy", "--type", "text/plain"],
            Gio.SubprocessFlags.STDIN_PIPE
            | Gio.SubprocessFlags.STDOUT_SILENCE
            | Gio.SubprocessFlags.STDERR_SILENCE,
        )
        if proc:
            proc.communicate(GLib.Bytes.new(text.encode("utf-8")), cancellable=None)

    def get_file_items(self, *args):
        files = args[0] if len(args) == 1 else args[1]
        paths = self._selected_paths(files)

        if not paths or not shutil.which("wl-copy"):
            return []

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