Feature - Widget for people Searching input box

[SharonStrats]

This widget allows panes to search through people UX similar to Facebook. It uses who the person knows and their contacts to find people. First found are a users contacts with WebIds and those they have listed as foaf: knows. It then traverses through 3 levels of the people they know. This can be easily decreased or increased.

This could be used in mashlib at the top to find people and go to their profile, just like Facebook. It can also be used in panes to select people and take action like adding them to a meeting, scheduledMeeting, perhaps in chat. I'm also thinking we may also be able to use this as a way to select people for sharing as well.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Adds a new People Search widget to the widgets library, enabling panes to discover and search for people using the user’s FOAF graph (foaf:knows) plus linked address books (vCard contacts), with client-side filtering UX.

Changes:

• Introduces createPeopleSearch widget that discovers people (FOAF traversal + address books) and renders a searchable dropdown.
• Re-exports the new widget from src/widgets/index.js.
• Adds @solid-data-modules/contacts-rdflib dependency (and lockfile entries) to read/list address books.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated 9 comments.

File	Description
src/widgets/peopleSearch.ts	New people search widget: discovery, caching, rendering, and filtering logic.
src/widgets/index.js	Re-export the new peopleSearch widget from the widgets entrypoint.
package.json	Adds @solid-data-modules/contacts-rdflib dependency required for address book discovery.
package-lock.json	Lockfile updates for the new dependency and its transitive deps.

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