Skin is a launch-time choice; stop applying it to a live window

Switching Modern -> Win7 at runtime broke the UI. SettingsService.applySkin
toggled the `.win7` class the moment the setting changed — harmless when there
was one component tree, and a broken window as soon as there were two. The tree
is bootstrapped once from the preload-baked __APP_SKIN, so the live flip painted
7.css onto shadlike markup that has no .window.glass, no .title-bar, no
menu[role=tablist] and no <table> ListView. The CSS landed on a tree that cannot
receive it.

A reload would not have helped, and neither would anything short of a restart:

- The preload is a persistent WebKitUserScript injected at DOCUMENT_START, so
  its string is frozen at webview construction — loadURL() re-runs it with the
  OLD __APP_SKIN. updatePreloadScriptToWebView exists in the FFI but is
  reachable only from electrobun's internal <electrobun-webview> handler.
- titleBarStyle/transparent have no setters; a live window cannot be re-framed.
  win7 -> modern is the dangerous direction — the modern tree draws no title
  bar, so it would land in a frameless transparent window with no way to move,
  minimize or close it.
- Recreating the main window is also out: exitOnLastWindowClosed is true, the
  main rpc is captured by six push closures, the tray captures `win`, and
  listeners cannot be removed.

So: applySkin is deleted outright, from setSkin AND from applyAll — the latter
matters independently, since applyAll runs on the settingsChanged push and was
therefore breaking every open editor and manager window too. Clicking a skin now
only persists it.

Also fixed a second leak found while tracing this: manager-window and
editor-windows build from `currentSettings()`, the LIVE snapshot, so a window
opened after a pending change would boot the new tree and frame while main still
ran the old one. `initSessionSkin` now freezes the skin at startup before any
window exists, and buildPreload/chromeOptions read that pinned value —
chromeOptions loses its parameter so no call site can get it wrong.

The options row shows the saved value as pending (skinPending() compares
settings.skin() against APP_SKIN) with the hint retexted in all 7 locales; it
said "Reopen the window to change its frame", which described the deleted
design.

Verified: tsc + build:ui clean; both skins boot correctly from a persisted
setting (win7 frameless, modern with the native frame). The live flip is now
impossible by construction, which is the check that matters here — the UI bundle
contains no classList write for win7 at all, the only writer is buildPreload,
and sessionSkin has exactly one assignment site.

Not verified: the click itself and the pending hint appearing, which need an
interaction pass — no window automation is available here. Both are present in
the built bundle.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -201,10 +201,30 @@ touching the adjacent code.
The win7 skin adds a **fourth value to keep in sync**: `buildPreload` also
bakes the `.win7` class, and index.html carries a matching `html.win7` arm
for all four theme states. Miss it and every win7 window flashes white.
- **`titleBarStyle` is construction-time only.** Switching skin cannot
re-frame a live window; `chromeOptions` is read once per `new
BrowserWindow`. The options row tells the user to reopen. Don't "fix" this
by recreating the main window — that would drop every session and tab.
- **The skin is a LAUNCH-TIME choice. Never apply one to a running window.**
This shipped broken once: `SettingsService.applySkin` toggled the `.win7`
class the moment the setting changed, which was harmless when there was one
component tree and became a broken window as soon as there were two — 7.css
painted onto shadlike markup that has no `.window.glass`, no `.title-bar`, no
`menu[role=tablist]` and no `<table>` ListView. Each skin's CSS is written
against its OWN tree's markup; the class must only ever be written by
`buildPreload`, for the tree that window actually booted.
- **A reload does not rescue it.** The preload is a persistent
`WebKitUserScript` injected at DOCUMENT_START, so its string is frozen at
webview construction — `webview.loadURL()` re-runs it with the OLD
`__APP_SKIN`. (`updatePreloadScriptToWebView` exists in the FFI but is
reachable only from electrobun's internal `<electrobun-webview>` handler.)
- **`titleBarStyle`/`transparent` are construction-time only** — no setters
exist, so a live window can never be re-framed. win7 → modern is the
dangerous direction: the modern tree draws no title bar, so it would land
in a frameless transparent window with no way to move, minimize or close.
- Don't "fix" this by recreating the main window either: `exitOnLastWindowClosed`
is true, the main `rpc` is captured by six push closures, the tray captures
`win`, listeners cannot be removed (no `off()`) — and it would drop every
session and tab.
- Bun pins it: `initSessionSkin` freezes the skin before any window exists,
and `buildPreload`/`chromeOptions` read that, never the live settings. Skip
the pin and a window opened after a pending change boots the other skin.
- Dev vs prod URL: `getMainViewUrl()` resolves the ng-serve dev server only
when `DEV_SERVER_URL` is set AND the updater channel is `dev` AND the
server answers a HEAD request; secondary windows must reuse the resolved