fix(menu): #131 — size text menus in ch with a cap, not in % of the monitor
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Bernardo saw Recovery ellipsize on a 2560x1440 external, which falsified
the item's model (40% + Inter 11 → "only below 1920"). Real cause: text
menus render through themes/<slug>/rofi.rasi, where boreal + neon-glass
pinned width: 620px (fixed — a wide panel buys nothing) while seven used
40%, and the font is whatever that file says — mostly monospace, far
wider than the Inter that was measured. The modelled combination ships in
no theme.

The insight: a menu must fit its longest label, which is a count of
characters in the THEME's font — so the window must scale with the font,
not the screen. 40% gives a 1366 panel 546px and a 2560 one 1024px for
the same row, and a 14pt mono theme needs ~25% more room than an 11pt one
on both; a percentage cannot see either fact.

Rofi has the right unit (`ch` = width of one digit in the current font)
and `calc( a min b )` to cap it, so every text menu — generated and all
nine whole-swaps — is now `width: calc( 84ch min 65% )`. 84ch fits the
longest row we ship (69 chars) plus icon and padding; the cap is
Bernardo's condition (never sprawl on a low-res panel) and it is
measured, not assumed.

Verified on hardware, not by arithmetic: 84ch = 756px in GeistMono 11 and
924px in JetBrainsMono 14; `calc( 84ch min 300px )` → 300px, so the clamp
really clamps. Screenshots at both ends — the real Recovery menu at 756px
(29% of 2560) with every label complete, and the Acer worst case
reproduced pixel-exactly (888px = 65% of 1366, JetBrainsMono 14) also
complete. Grid views override width per-invocation and are untouched.
checks.rofi-text-width guards the class, proven by pinning boreal back to
620px and watching it fail by name. Acer V3 queued for its own fontconfig.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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computed from the focused monitor now, so this is checking the fallback
path and the font, not the arithmetic), fully on-screen, none clipped by
the bar. Dev box (2560×1440) already measured exact.
- [ ] **#131 menu width on the real narrow panel** — open Menu ▸ Recovery.
Pass = every label complete (no ellipsis) and the picker visibly *not*
hogging the screen (≤65%, the cap). The geometry was already reproduced
pixel-exactly on the dev box (888px + JetBrainsMono 14 = what 65% of 1366
produces) and passed, so what is genuinely unproven here is only the
Acer's own fontconfig/DPI resolving `ch` the same way — try it under a
**JetBrainsMono 14 theme** (summer-day/night, kanagawa), the widest case.
## Latitude 5310 / 5410 only
- [ ] **v1 QA batch on-hardware pass** (583708d batch was QEMU-verified) —