feat(player): centre the transport and show the volume inline
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Two issues over one bar, because they are one relayout. #42's own
findings say so: giving wa-slider a label grows it 6px to 14px and
moves the transport, which is #23's subject, so doing them in sequence
means measuring the bar twice and throwing the first set away.

The bar was `320px 1fr auto`, so the transport sat in the middle of
what the metadata and the queue button did not use — its centre was
~140px right of the window's at every width. The outer two tracks are
the same expression now, so the middle is centred by construction.

The side width is the metadata's, capped at a quarter of the bar, and
the cap was measured as a regression before it was a decision:
reserving the full `--now-playing-width` on both sides is perfectly
centred and takes the seek bar's track from 257px to 61px at 800px, and
to 0 at 200% text. The control you drag was paying for the symmetry.
With the cap it is 246, which is parity. It is a `min()` rather than a
breakpoint because that variable is user state — the metadata has a
drag handle — and tying both sides to it is also what keeps dragging
meaningful; a plain `1fr … 1fr` centres just as well and silently makes
the handle a no-op.

The volume moved out of `audio-player` into the bar because the
transport column has to hold the transport and nothing else, and it
joins the queue button in one cell rather than a second column, since
the centring compares columns.

It is a slider by default and a popup by setting. The stored flag names
the *popup*, which is this config's polarity rule — the zero value has
to be the intended answer, so an existing config.toml gets the new
default with no migration. Inline, the icon is the mute toggle and is
named after that action rather than the state, because with the slider
beside it there is nothing to disclose; the component tier now covers
both presentations rather than whichever is default.

Three nested rules in this block began with a bare element selector,
which Chrome 120 relaxed and the phone's Chrome 113 **silently drops** —
including the ellipsis on the bar's own title and artist, which has
therefore never truncated on the device. They are `&`-prefixed now.
Filed as #154 for the class and for a check.

`bottom-bar.spec.ts` pins both halves separately on purpose: an
uncapped build is perfectly centred and fails only the seek-bar width,
so a spec asserting centring alone would have passed the regression
above. Both were verified by mutation.

Closes #23
Closes #42
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@@ -1572,6 +1572,50 @@ And **the bar does not resize when a job starts**, which is the case the
whole thing is for — a ResizeObserver on the header alone never fires,
so every element child is observed too.
**The bottom bar is three columns whose outer two are the same width,
and that is what "centred" means.** It was `320px 1fr auto`, so the
transport sat in the middle of the space the metadata and the queue
button did not use — its centre was ~140px right of the window's at
every size (#23). The outer tracks are now the same expression, so the
middle one is centred by construction rather than by arithmetic that
has to be redone whenever a control joins the bar.
Four things about it are load-bearing.
**The side width is the metadata's, capped at a quarter of the bar**,
and the cap is not tidiness — it was measured as a regression first.
Reserving the full `--now-playing-width` on *both* sides costs the
transport twice: at 800px the outer pair wanted 640 of 800 and the seek
bar's track fell from **257px to 61px**, and to 0 at 200% text. The
control you drag was being squeezed to centre the buttons above it.
With the cap it is 246px at 800, which is parity with the uncentred
layout.
**The cap is a `min()` rather than a breakpoint** because
`--now-playing-width` is *user state* — the metadata panel has a drag
handle — and the same reasoning the queue panel's overlay mode uses
applies: a rule that assumed the default 320 would be wrong by whatever
the user dragged. Tying both sides to that variable is also what keeps
the handle meaningful; a plain `1fr … 1fr` would centre the transport
just as well and silently make dragging a no-op.
**The volume moved out of `audio-player` and into the bar** (#42),
because the transport column has to hold the transport and nothing
else or "centred" means centred with a slider bolted to one side. It
lives in `.bar-end` with the queue button — one cell, not two columns,
since the centring compares *columns* and a separate volume track would
make the outer pair unequal by whatever the slider measures.
And **the slider is inline by default, with the popup as a setting**
whose stored flag names the *popup*: `backend/config`'s polarity rule,
where the zero value has to be the intended answer, so an existing
`config.toml` with no key gets the new default without a migration.
Inline, the icon becomes the mute toggle and is named after that action
rather than after the state, because with the slider beside it there is
nothing left to disclose. It stands down below 600px whatever the
setting says — that is about the platform rather than preference, and
is why `mediacontrols`' Android handler implements no volume callback.
**900 is the worst desktop width, not the 800×600 minimum.** The
sidebar collapses to icons *below* 900, so the main panel is 843px at
899 and 700px at 900 — the narrowest content area any desktop width