test(shell): check 900x600, which is narrower than the minimum
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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
produces is at the top of the Compact band, not at the enforced floor.
A viewport list that stopped at "the minimum" was missing its own worst
case.

MinWidth's comment loses both reasons it used to give, because neither
mechanism can happen any more — the subtitle is display:none from 899
down, and the sidebar host is overflow-y:auto (at 600x460 its
scrollHeight is 434 against a 332px client, and Settings is reachable
after scrolling). The value does not change: 800x600 is where desktop
chrome stops being comfortable, not where the app breaks, and below
600 the phone layout takes over. A floor defended by two expired
mechanisms is a number nobody can argue with, which is worse than
either answer.

Closes #24
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// enforces this at runtime; it is also the floor below which a
// reported size is treated as bogus and not persisted.
//
// 800x600 is where the shell was measured to still work, rather
// than a round number: below ~780 the header's subtitle wraps and
// pushes the title out of the 4em top bar, and below ~600 tall the
// eleven sidebar items no longer fit at once. The previous
// 512x384 was aspirational — at 700x480 the sidebar overflowed
// behind the player bar with no scroll and Settings and Jobs could
// not be reached at all.
// **Both reasons this comment used to give have expired**, and the
// value is right for a third one. It said the floor was 800x600
// because "below ~780 the header's subtitle wraps and pushes the
// title out of the 4em top bar" and "below ~600 tall the eleven
// sidebar items no longer fit at once". Neither mechanism can
// happen now: the subtitle is display:none from 899px down
// (index.css), and the sidebar host is overflow-y:auto — measured
// at 600x460, its scrollHeight is 434 against a 332px client and
// Settings is reachable after scrolling. A floor defended by two
// mechanisms that no longer exist is a number nobody can argue
// with, which is worse than either answer.
//
// It stays 800x600 because that is where the *desktop* chrome
// stops being comfortable — the Compact band of plan 018's size
// matrix (#24) — and not because the app breaks below it. It does
// not: under 600px wide the phone layout takes over (bottom-nav,
// no sidebar) and the shell fits 320px exactly, which is what
// makes this a comfort floor rather than a correctness one, and
// why a very small window reflows instead of becoming a
// mini-player (#12 is a second always-on-top window, not a mode of
// this one).
//
// The previous 512x384 was aspirational — at 700x480 the sidebar
// overflowed behind the player bar with no scroll and Settings and
// Jobs could not be reached at all.
MinWidth = 800
// MinHeight is the smallest allowed window height in pixels.
MinHeight = 600