feat(gui): add a GTK sender panel and a waybar widget

A gtkmm-4.0 control panel (behind -Dgui=true, default off): refresh
shows discovered receivers (grouped and preference-sorted), a bitrate
scale, and start/stop that runs the whole session on a worker thread
so the interactive portal picker never blocks the UI. The CLI and the
GUI now share the new sc_app_core static library holding the
pipelines, session orchestration (negotiation + PLI feedback), and a
state store.

The sender pipeline publishes its state to
$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/screencast/sender.json (session id, receiver,
bitrate, pid, start time; stale files detected by pid liveness) and
persists the last session for one-click restarts. The new
'screencast waybar' subcommand prints a waybar module line and its
--toggle flag stops a running sender gracefully or spawns a detached
restart of the last receiver.

Waybar on the dev machine is wired: custom/screencast module with
click-to-toggle and right-click panel, plus styles, with a timestamped
backup of both config files. Both binaries are installed to
/usr/local/bin.

Validated: waybar output (idle and streaming states with a synthetic
state file), GUI launches on the desktop (window observed via
hyprctl), meson test 5/5 in both build configurations, formatting
clean.
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@@ -89,9 +89,10 @@ discovered addresses in reachability order (private IPv4 first).
- [x] Jitter/reorder window on the receiver (16 packets / 60 ms).
- [x] Hardware H.264 decode probe with software fallback (h264_v4l2m2m —
the Pi's VideoCore path; --swdecode opts out).
- [ ] GTK4 sender GUI behind `meson -Dgui=true` + a waybar widget
(requested; plan approved scope: sender panel, state file,
`screencast waybar` subcommand).
- [x] GTK4 sender GUI behind `meson -Dgui=true` (gtkmm; receiver list,
bitrate, start/stop) plus a waybar widget (`screencast waybar`,
click-to-toggle, right-click opens the panel; state shared via
$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/screencast/sender.json).
- [ ] VAAPI hardware encode probe on the sender (deferred: software
encode is not the bottleneck).
- Deferred: .desktop file, packaging.
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@@ -134,6 +134,24 @@ A window manager only comes with the desktop-session alternative, where
the receiver runs inside it (uncomment the `Environment=` lines in the
service file as described above).
## GTK panel and waybar widget (Phase 7)
Build the GUI alongside the CLI (`meson configure build -Dgui=true`, then
recompile; installs as `screencast-gui`):
```sh
screencast-gui # receiver list → pick one → bitrate → Start
screencast waybar # one JSON line for a waybar custom module
screencast waybar --toggle # stop a running sender / restart the last
```
The waybar module (installed to this machine's `~/.config/waybar/` — see
`custom/screencast` there): `▶` while streaming (tooltip: receiver, bitrate,
elapsed), `⏸` while idle; left-click toggles streaming to the last receiver
via the state file, right-click opens the panel. The sender publishes its
state to `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/screencast/sender.json`, so every front-end —
CLI, GUI, widget — agrees on what is running.
## Under the hood: resilience (Phase 7)
The receiver absorbs loss in two stages and recovers actively: