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🐛 Reject clipboard helpers gracefully on insecure origins (#9188)
* 🐛 Reject clipboard helpers gracefully on insecure origins

Closes #6514. Resolves the user-visible crash originally reported
in #4478.

`app.util.clipboard/to-clipboard` and `to-clipboard-promise` called
`(unchecked-get js/navigator "clipboard")` and then immediately
invoked `.writeText` / `.write` on the result, with no guard for the
case where `navigator.clipboard` is `undefined`. The W3C Clipboard
API spec requires a "secure context" (HTTPS or localhost), so a
Penpot instance served over plain HTTP - which the SSDP/LAN
self-hosted setup in #4478 was - throws

  TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'writeText')

synchronously the moment the user clicks any copy button. The error
escapes the consuming function before any error-handling rx/of arm
runs, so the whole UI ends up on the error screen instead of just
the affected control showing a "could not copy" message.

A third helper (`to-clipboard-multi`) already guards `clipboard` and
`clipboard.write`, but if both are missing it silently returns nil
which is also surprising for callers expecting a Promise.

## Fix

Add a small `get-clipboard` accessor and an `unavailable-error`
factory that returns `Promise.reject(Error(...))` with a clear
message ("Clipboard API is unavailable. This usually happens when
the page is served over plain HTTP; serve Penpot over HTTPS to
enable copy-to-clipboard."). Wire all three helpers through the
same defensive contract:

- `to-clipboard` - return the rejected Promise when
  `navigator.clipboard.writeText` is missing.
- `to-clipboard-promise` - return the rejected Promise when
  `navigator.clipboard.write` is missing.
- `to-clipboard-multi` - convert the existing `if` into a `cond`
  with three branches: prefer `clipboard.write` for true multi-MIME
  output, fall through to `writeText` with the text/plain payload
  when only the legacy text path is available, and finally reject
  with the unavailable error when neither path exists. Previously
  the no-API case fell off the `when-let` and silently returned
  nil.

The contract is now consistent: every helper either resolves or
rejects a Promise, never throws synchronously, and never returns
nil. Callers (which are already structured around rx streams that
call `rx/from` on the helper's return value) can chain `.catch` /
`rx/catch` to surface a status-bar message instead of crashing.

The two stale `;; FIXME` comments on `to-clipboard` (rename to
`write-text`) and `to-clipboard-promise` (this API is very confuse)
are removed - the rename remains an open follow-up across 13+ call
sites and is intentionally out of scope, but the API is no longer
"confuse" once the contract is documented and uniform.

CHANGES.md entry added under the 2.17.0 Bugs-fixed section
describing the user-visible behaviour change.

* 🐛 Reject paste-from-navigator gracefully on insecure origins

Symmetric companion to the to-clipboard / to-clipboard-promise /
to-clipboard-multi guards added earlier in this PR. The paste path
went through fromNavigator (frontend/src/app/util/clipboard.js) which
called `navigator.clipboard.read()` with no nil-check; on insecure
origins (plain HTTP / non-localhost) this raised an opaque
`TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'read')` and
the workspace surfaced a generic 'Something wrong has happened' toast
instead of the descriptive 'serve Penpot over HTTPS …' message users
get for the copy direction.

Mirror the get-clipboard pattern from clipboard.cljs:
- Read `navigator.clipboard` once into a local.
- If it's missing the `.read` method, throw a descriptive Error that
  matches the wording the copy direction already uses (only the verb
  swaps: 'paste-from-clipboard' instead of 'copy-to-clipboard').
- Otherwise, dispatch through the local handle.

The existing app.util.clipboard/from-navigator (clipboard.cljs:32)
already wraps impl/fromNavigator in rx/from, so a rejected Promise
from the async function propagates as an rx error event. Existing
callers that subscribe with .catch / on-error see the structured
Error and surface the toast, identical to how to-clipboard's
unavailable-error already flows.

Repro (matches niwinz's reproduction in the PR comment):

  Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'clipboard', { value: undefined });
  // … then attempt a paste action in the workspace …

Before: TypeError in console + 'Something wrong has happened' toast.
After: descriptive Error caught by the rx subscription and rendered
through the existing unavailable-Clipboard-API surface.

Refs #6514, #4478

* 🐛 Show user-facing toast when clipboard API is unavailable

Niwinz's review on penpot#9188 caught that the rejected Promise from
to-clipboard / to-clipboard-promise / to-clipboard-multi /
fromNavigator now surfaces the correct error to the console, but the
workspace UI still falls through to the generic "Something wrong has
happened" toast because the on-clipboard-permission-error and the
paste error-handler in paste-from-clipboard only branched on
clipboard-permission-error?.

Apply the patch he suggested in the review:

- Add clipboard-unavailable-error? predicate that matches the
  Promise.reject(Error("Clipboard API is unavailable. ...")) thrown
  by the get-clipboard / unavailable-error helpers added earlier in
  this PR. Uses str/starts-with? on the message prefix so the
  predicate stays stable even if the trailing "serve Penpot over
  HTTPS ..." advice text is reworded later.
- Convert on-clipboard-permission-error from `if` to `cond` and add
  a third arm that fires errors.clipboard-api-unavailable as a
  warning toast.
- Add the same arm in the second cond block inside
  paste-from-clipboard, before the :not-implemented and :else arms.
- Add the matching errors.clipboard-api-unavailable entry to
  frontend/translations/en.po with the wording niwinz suggested:
  "Clipboard API is unavailable. Serve Penpot over HTTPS to enable
  clipboard access".

Refs penpot#9188 review.

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Signed-off-by: Andrey Antukh <niwi@niwi.nz>
Co-authored-by: Andrey Antukh <niwi@niwi.nz>
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