feat(portals): fold live TV panels in nested levels with a category dropdown (#1556)

## Summary

Live TV panels now fold from the outside in, in three nested levels, instead of one toggle that hid the categories rail and the channel list together:

1. **Categories + channels + player** (browse, unchanged).
2. **Channels + player** — a new `chevron_left` in the categories rail header hides only that rail. The channels header then turns its title into a **category dropdown** that opens the same shell panel as a popover (search, sort, counts, selection are one implementation), plus a `chevron_right` that brings the rail back.
3. **Player only** — the channels header chevron, as before. The floating restore handle and `Cmd/Ctrl+B` return to the level the user collapsed from, not always to level 1.

Every level is restored as stored, per surface (`live-sidebar-state:<surface>`, from #1555): a hidden rail is discoverable through the workspace header toggle and the hidden-list empty state that #1555 added, so this PR no longer needs its original "player-only never restores" rule. The level `Cmd/Ctrl+B` comes back to is seeded from the restored level and kept for the session.

## Design notes

- Nested levels rather than two independent booleans: "channels hidden, categories visible" makes no sense since a category click has to bring the channels back anyway. The model follows the outside-in collapse of three-pane apps (Mail, Slack, Plex).
- The categories rail folds at level 2 **only while a category is selected**: the live root ("All Items" grid) has no channels header to host the way back, so folding there would strand the user. Level 3 folds it regardless, because the floating restore handle lives in the content area.
- `LIVE_CATEGORIES_POPOVER` (`@iptvnator/portal/shared/util`) is the DI bridge: the workspace shell provides `WorkspaceLiveCategoriesPopoverService` (CDK overlay hosting `WorkspaceContextPanelComponent` in `presentation="popover"`), the Xtream and Stalker live layouts inject it optionally and keep their plain heading without a provider.
- M3U and the unified live tab have no categories rail and treat level 2 like level 1; their code is untouched.

## Merged with #1555 (per-surface rail state)

#1555 landed while this PR was open and reworked the same service: state per surface (`m3u` / `portal` / `collection`), a workspace header toggle, the hidden-list empty state, and the legacy shared key forgotten on startup. This PR keeps that model and layers the three levels onto the `portal` surface (`areCategoriesHiddenFor`, `hideCategories` / `showCategories` / `collapse` / `expand` per surface; `toggle(surface)` returns to the level the surface collapsed from). "Show playing channel" uses `expand('portal')` so it keeps a deliberately hidden categories rail folded, and the category sort preference moved to `PortalCategorySortStateService` so the popover copy of the context panel and the retained rail agree.

## Also fixed along the way

- The channels header showed "Channels" instead of the category name: provider category ids are strings, the selection is numeric. Compared via `String()` now.
- A collapsed context panel left a 22px padding strip beside the channels rail.
- The panel toggle labels said "Hide channels list" while also hiding categories; labels and tooltips are honest now (8 new i18n keys, all 18 locales).



Docs: `docs/architecture/iptvnator-ui-guidelines.md` ("Collapsible Live Sidebar" rewritten), `docs/architecture/workspace-shell.md`. Release note: `.changes/portals-live-panel-collapse-levels.md`.

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@@ -146,6 +146,12 @@ default. The panel header exposes a sort menu next to category search with
synthetic "all categories" entries stay pinned before sorted provider
categories.
On live sections the category panel can be folded away independently of the
channels list; the folded panel is reachable as a popover from the channels
header through the `LIVE_CATEGORIES_POPOVER` token the shell provides. The
three nested levels, their affordances and persistence are specified in
`iptvnator-ui-guidelines.md` ("Collapsible Live Sidebar").
A category click in a LIVE section (Xtream `live`, Stalker `itv` and `radio`)
changes only the selected category: the live layouts gate their player on the
store's selected item, so the handler must not clear it — the channel the user