Improve scene background modal UI

[rgin216]

Issue

The scene background controls were visually inconsistent with the rest of the authoring interface. The toolbar action was separated from the element creation controls, while the modal used oversized labels and controls, a vertically growing image library, and actions split across different columns.

Solution

• Rename the modal to Scene Background and move the toolbar action beside Add Shape with a separator.
• Place the colour picker and upload action inline with their respective radio controls.
• Reorder the uploaded image library above the image-fit selector, show four images at once, and allow horizontal scrolling.
• Expand the image-fit selector and move Remove background, Cancel, and Apply beneath the scene preview.
• Preserve draft changes until Apply; Cancel and close discard them, while Remove background applies immediately and closes the modal.

Risk

Low. The shared colour picker and image list components gained opt-in compact and horizontal modes while retaining their existing defaults. Frontend formatting, lint, unit tests, and the production build pass locally.

Checklist

• Acceptance criteria met
• Wiki documentation is written and up to date
• Unit tests written and passing
• Integration tests written and passing
• Continuous integration build passing

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added horizontal scrolling support for image lists.
  • Introduced a redesigned Scene Background menu with improved color and image controls.
  • Added compact color-picker controls and a Cancel action for background changes.

• Improvements

  • Preserved full selected color values for more precise background customization.
  • Reorganized background controls in the top toolbar.
  • Improved loading, empty-state, image layout, and image-fit presentation.

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VPS-185

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The authoring interface updates background selection with a compact ChromePicker, revised image controls, horizontal image scrolling, and Cancel and Apply actions. The background menu control also moves after the element-creation controls.

Changes

Scene background editing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Compact color picker frontend/src/features/authoring/wrapper/ChromePicker.tsx	ChromePicker supports compact rendering, optional onOpen, shared picker rendering, color previews, and formatted values.
Background menu flow frontend/src/features/authoring/topbar/BackgroundMenu.tsx, frontend/src/components/ListContainer/ImageListContainer.jsx	The menu preserves complete color values, reorganizes image controls, supports horizontal image lists, and adds Cancel and Apply actions.
Topbar control placement frontend/src/features/authoring/topbar/Topbar.tsx	The background menu control appears after the element-creation controls. Its state update and label remain unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 356ab

Closing the compact color picker may unexpectedly switch the scene background source to color, potentially changing the user's intended background mode. The change is otherwise localized, but this bounded correctness issue requires explicit owner awareness or follow-up.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AuthoringUser
  participant BackgroundMenu
  participant ChromePicker
  participant ImageListContainer
  AuthoringUser->>BackgroundMenu: Open Scene Background
  BackgroundMenu->>ChromePicker: Render compact color control
  AuthoringUser->>ChromePicker: Open or change color
  ChromePicker->>BackgroundMenu: Return selected color
  BackgroundMenu->>ImageListContainer: Render uploaded images
  AuthoringUser->>BackgroundMenu: Select source and Apply or Cancel

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In `@frontend/src/features/authoring/wrapper/ChromePicker.tsx`:
- Around line 60-63: Update the click handler in ChromePicker so onOpen is
invoked only when the picker transitions from closed to open; preserve the
existing toggle behavior while preventing close clicks from resetting
BackgroundMenu’s source to color.

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[harbassan]

nice, looking much better