feat(visual): type to the model while muted; a quieter drawing indicator

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Summary

Typing while muted. In the visual (MulmoGlass) mode, there was no way to type to the model.

• When a voice session is connected and the microphone is muted, a text box and a send button take the place of the state line ("Tap the microphone to start.") and the settings line ("GPT Realtime 2.1 / … / English"). They sit right of the mute button, in the same row.
• Enter or send sends the text to the model as a user message, through the same sendTextMessage the Sidebar's input uses, and clears the box.
• The box takes focus when it appears, and unmuting brings the two lines back.
• Enter that confirms an IME conversion (Japanese kana to kanji) doesn't send the message (found by Codex review). The form's submit is held while composing: isComposing, a compositionstart/end flag, or key code 229. Safari ends the composition before that Enter's keydown, so isComposing alone misses it there.
• The toolbar keeps its height.

A quieter drawing indicator. "Drawing panel…" / "Drawing the characters…" used to be a large pill at the top centre of the canvas, with 20 px text. It's now a small one in the canvas's bottom-right corner: 14 px text, semi-transparent, letting clicks pass through. A slide or panel is often drawn while the one on the screen is being explained.

docs/architecture.md updated.

Checked

Headless visual mode, silent fake microphone, mock images:

• Typed request "Please show me one slide about the planet Mars." The text reached the model as a user message, and the model showed a Mars slide and explained it.
  • Gemini Live: 3 of 4 runs. In the first run after a restart, the message didn't go out to Gemini; not reproduced, cause unknown.
  • OpenAI Realtime: 2 of 2. Grok: 1 of 1.
• Toolbar height is unchanged when muted: 113 px at 1400 px wide, 137 px at 390 px (two rows, as before). The box takes focus, and screenshots at both widths look right.
• The indicator, during a three-panel picture story (Storyteller role, request typed while muted): shown 12 px from the canvas's right edge and from the toolbar, in 14 px text.
• IME guard: a composing Enter, Safari's key-229 Enter and an Enter during a composition are held, and the text is kept. A plain Enter still sends to Gemini.
• No page errors. yarn typecheck and yarn lint pass.

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• New Features
  • When a voice session is connected and the microphone is muted, a message box replaces the usual status display. Type and send a message to the model; blank messages cannot be sent, and the draft clears after a successful send.
  • The message box focuses automatically when it appears and avoids submitting text while you’re using an input method editor.
  • Text models still cannot connect in Visual mode.
• Updates
  • The visual mode’s image-generation indicator now appears as a smaller, non-interactive badge in the bottom-right corner.

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Visual mode now shows a text-entry form during active voice sessions when the microphone is muted. Submissions are trimmed and routed to the model, and the send function reports success or failure. The image-generation indicator moves to a compact bottom-right badge.

Changes

Visual mode text entry

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add the muted-session text form src/components/VisualControlBar.vue	When chat is active and muted, the control bar shows and focuses a form. It prevents Enter from submitting during IME composition, disables sending for blank text, and clears the matching draft only after a successful send.
Route text from visual mode src/views/HomeView.vue, docs/architecture.md	HomeView passes sendTextMessage to the control bar. The function returns false for empty text or a failed send, and true after a successful send. The image-generation indicator moves to a compact bottom-right badge. The architecture documentation describes text entry and retains the restriction on connecting a text model in Visual mode.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant VisualControlBar
  participant HomeView
  participant sendUserMessageInternal
  User->>VisualControlBar: Submit trimmed text
  VisualControlBar->>HomeView: Call sendTextMessage
  HomeView->>sendUserMessageInternal: Send user message
  sendUserMessageInternal-->>HomeView: Return send result
  HomeView-->>VisualControlBar: Return success boolean

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Rapid submissions can send the same message twice, while retrying a failed send can duplicate its result. Fix both paths before merging.

Architecture Summary

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The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: src, docs

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• observed — src (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — docs (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in docs/architecture.md: The description adds a text-entry state for connected voice sessions when the microphone is muted: the text box replaces the state and status lines, and submitted text goes to the model as a user message. It replaces the former statement that Visual mode has no text entry; the restriction on connecting a text model remains.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/components/VisualControlBar.vue: When chat is active and muted, the state/status area is replaced by a text form. It submits through send, disables the button when trimmed text is empty, and retains the state/status display otherwise.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/components/VisualControlBar.vue: Vue’s nextTick, ref, and watch are imported, and defineProps is assigned to props for use by the new form logic.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/components/VisualControlBar.vue: The component’s props add sendText, which accepts a string and returns a promise of a boolean.

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