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Add two new Python plugins: Recent Files & Unicode Symbols

This PR adds two new Python plugins for Albert.

🕓 Recent Files

Provides quick access to recently used files and folders via GTK's RecentManager. Features include:

  • Filter modifiers to narrow results by type — directories (d), videos (v), audio (a), images (i), or files only (f)
  • Search by typing a term after the trigger (e.g. rf v movie)
  • Actions for each result: open, copy path, or reveal in file manager
  • Configurable exclude patterns and result limit

🔣 Unicode Symbols

Search and copy Unicode and ASCII characters to the clipboard. Find characters by name, description, Unicode block, code point, or the character itself. Features include:

  • Comprehensive search across character names, descriptions, blocks, and code points (e.g. sym arrow right, sym U+2764, sym ♥)
  • Quick copy — press Enter to copy the symbol to clipboard
  • HTML entity support — a secondary action copies the HTML entity (e.g. ©, ♥)
  • Global query handling — optionally surfaces Unicode symbols in search results without a trigger keyword
  • Fast indexed search using Albert's native IndexQueryHandler

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