Redesign Shorts workspace

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What changed

• Rebuilt the Shorts workspace around a preview-first layout with one trailing contextual panel.
• Added explicit Clips and Edit modes, automatic transition to editing on selection, and consolidated create, suggestion, settings, and export actions.
• Converted selected-short controls into compact vertical sections and only shows crop focus controls when Crop is active.
• Replaced nested and hidden interactions with explicit menus and accessibility labels.
• Removed the duplicate bottom inspector.
• Added a dedicated compact Shorts timeline height and a timeline presentation that hides subtitle cue blocks while preserving waveform, snapping, playhead, and range editing.
• Added focused tests and updated the owning package documentation.

Why

The previous implementation displayed the full-width Shorts header, library, timeline, and a fixed bottom inspector at the same time. These permanent surfaces compressed the vertical preview and exposed several competing controls, making the workflow visually dense and harder to understand.

The new layout uses progressive disclosure: the preview remains dominant, while clip browsing and selected-clip editing share one predictable contextual panel.

Impact

Shorts editing now has more preview space, clearer action hierarchy, a compact source timeline, and more discoverable clip and crop-point actions. Existing project state, undo/autosave ownership, suggestion logic, rendering, and export semantics remain unchanged.

Validation

• swift test --package-path AppTarget/Modules/Features/ShortsFeature
• swift test --package-path AppTarget/Modules/Features/TimelineFeature
• swift test --package-path AppTarget/Modules/Features/ProjectFeature
• mise run docs:check
• mise run doctor
• mise run build:macos
• git diff --check

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Framelingo Architecture Diff

iosdevsx:main → iosdevsx:codex/simplify-shorts-workspace

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