Nariman Jelveh 8643a84f7c feat(gui): iOS-style app folders in the My Apps grid
Drag one app onto another and let it settle: a well opens under the
target and the drop makes a folder of the two. Dropping onto an existing
folder joins it. A folder opens by growing out of its own icon into a
card over a blurred grid, where its apps can be launched, rearranged,
renamed, or carried back out.

Hovering a tile mid-drag means two things — "push over, I'm passing
through" and "swallow me" — and the tile is barely bigger than its icon,
so pixels can't separate them; motion does. The shuffle is held while
the folder offer stands and fires when the icon leaves the tile, or at
the drop, so a quick drop onto a neighbour still reorders exactly as it
did. The offer itself re-arms rather than cancelling on movement: the
last events of a drag are the ones carrying the icon onto the target and
nothing is dispatched while it rests, so a cancel-on-movement dwell
could never fire at all.

Folders are stored in their own kv key; the grid's ORDER stays entirely
in the existing saved app order, with a folder occupying its first
member's slot and its members contiguous. Every saved order therefore
stays valid with no migration, and an app whose installedApps page
failed to load keeps both its folder and its position. Folders never
nest, one that drops below two apps dissolves, and a corrupt kv value
degrades to "no folders" rather than a broken tab.

Elsewhere:
- Search looks THROUGH folders — a match the user then has to hunt for
  inside one is not an answer.
- Minimize morphs into the FOLDER when an app lives in one, and a
  /app/<name> landing opens the folder so the launch grows out of the
  icon where the app actually is.
- The uninstall FLIP keyed surviving tiles by app name, which a folder
  tile doesn't have; it now keys by identity.

New pure model in appGroups.js with tests; verified end to end in the
running dashboard (create, join, open, rename, reorder, eject, ungroup,
launch-from-folder) alongside plain reorder, search, and uninstall.
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