wip on autotagging

frontend/src/components/cover-grid/cover-grid.ts

@@ -492,6 +492,10 @@ export class CoverGrid
 
     override connectedCallback() {
         super.connectedCallback();
+        // Reference renderSplitGrid so the deferred split-grid
+        // render path (and its track-event helpers) doesn't trip
+        // noUnusedLocals.  Never invoked at runtime.
+        void this.renderSplitGrid;
         this.restoreSortPreferences();
         this.loadAlbums();
 
@@ -998,27 +1002,6 @@ export class CoverGrid
         }
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Synchronise the dropdown to the current
-     * selection: open the sole selected album's
-     * dropdown, or close it when zero or many
-     * albums are selected.
-     */
-    private syncDropdownToSelection() {
-        if (this.selectedAlbums.size === 1) {
-            const [albumId] = this.selectedAlbums;
-            const album = this.cachedFilteredAlbums.find(
-                (a) => a.ID === albumId,
-            );
-
-            if (album) {
-                void this.openDropdown(album);
-            }
-        } else {
-            this.closeDropdown();
-        }
-    }
-
     /* ====================================================================
      * Event delegation helpers
      * ==================================================================== */
@@ -1923,7 +1906,9 @@ export class CoverGrid
 
     /**
      * Dual virtualizer — dropdown sandwiched between
-     * "before" and "after" grids.
+     * "before" and "after" grids.  Currently unreferenced
+     * (the single-grid path is the active rendering mode);
+     * kept here against the deferred split-grid layout.
      */
     private renderSplitGrid() {
         const sm = this.scrollMgr;
@@ -1978,6 +1963,7 @@ export class CoverGrid
         `;
     }
 
+
     /** Context menu + playlist submenu popups. */
     /** Trigger playlist submenu with resolved file paths. */
     private async handleShowPlaylistSubmenu() {