feat: add external control service for remote control

[GoodbyeNJN]

What this PR does

When running in Wayland environment on Linux, the application's built-in global hotkey binding feature does not work. Adapting to each desktop environment's global hotkey solution is complex and hard to maintain. To address this, this PR introduces an external control service that can be invoked externally, enabling users to assign their own hotkeys to invoke the service, thereby achieving the original global hotkey features.

For consistency across platforms, both an HTTP server (cross-platform) and a UNIX domain socket (Unix-only) are provided.

Fixes #1736

Why we need it and why it was done in this way

Discussions #2379

Breaking changes

None. Just a new feature.

Special notes for your reviewer

My further idea is to allow passing parameters directly in the external invocation, so that specific features inside the application can be triggered directly.

For example, when the external control service is invoked with the following parameters, the application should open the miniwindow and directly navigate to the translation page to translate the given text.

{
  "cmd": "showQuickAssistant",
  "route": "translate",
  "clipboardText": "Hello, world!"
}

Checklist

• PR: The PR description is expressive enough and will help future contributors
• Code: Write code that humans can understand and Keep it simple
• Refactor: You have left the code cleaner than you found it (Boy Scout Rule)
• Upgrade: Impact of this change on upgrade flows was considered and addressed if required
• Documentation: A user-guide update was considered and is present (link) or not required. You want a user-guide update if it's a user facing feature.

Need to update documentation to explain how to use the external control service, but I don't know how to do it yet. I will update the documentation later.

Release note

Feature: Introduce external control service for invoking application features via external hotkeys.

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR introduces an external control service to allow users to invoke application features via external hotkeys, providing both HTTP and UNIX domain socket servers.

• Added ExternalControlServerType enum and Redux slice (externalControl) for storing server type and HTTP port.
• Extended settings UI to let users choose server type and configure HTTP port.
• Implemented ExternalControlService with HTTP and Unix socket listeners, wired up IPC handlers, config persistence, and app lifecycle integration.

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 15 out of 15 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

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File	Description
src/renderer/src/types/index.ts	Define ExternalControlServerType enum
src/renderer/src/store/externalControl.ts	Create Redux slice for external control settings
src/renderer/src/pages/settings/ShortcutSettings.tsx	Add UI controls for server type selector and HTTP port input
src/preload/index.ts	Expose externalControl.setServerType and .setHttpPort APIs
src/main/services/ConfigManager.ts	Persist and notify external control config keys
src/main/services/ExternalControlService.ts	Implement HTTP and Unix socket servers and command handling
src/main/ipc.ts	Register IPC channels for external control settings
src/main/index.ts	Start/stop externalControlService on app lifecycle events
packages/shared/IpcChannel.ts	Add new IPC channel constants for external control
src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/*	Add translation keys for settings UI

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (2)

src/renderer/src/store/externalControl.ts:1

• [nitpick] Consider adding unit tests for the externalControl slice reducers (setServerType and setHttpPort) to ensure configuration updates behave as expected.

import { createSlice, PayloadAction } from '@reduxjs/toolkit'

src/renderer/src/pages/settings/ShortcutSettings.tsx:408

• [nitpick] Update the help/documentation link to point to the actual external control service documentation once it’s available, instead of the placeholder GitHub URL.

          <Link to="https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio" style={{ display: 'flex', marginLeft: 6 }}>

[0xfullex]

how to solve the issue by seting up an http server?

[0xfullex]

solutions about Linux wayland protocol, please refer to disscussion #2379

these pr will be pending due to the solutions