Brennan Benson 0f9c12db17 Chat: pasting a copied file attaches it, like dropping it (#29089)
* fix(native-chat): paste a copied file into Chat the way dropping it attaches it

Copying an image file in Finder and pasting into Chat typed the file name
and attached nothing: the paste only attached a bitmap from the clipboard.
Copied files now go through the composer's drop route, on both the
app-menu paste and the paste event.

Fixes STA-10652

* refactor(native-chat): share the paste guards with the copied-files branch

* test(native-chat): late paste results stay dropped when the image waits for the clipboard read

* Keep copied attachments pending through preparation and composition

* Update file drop fixture settlement results

* Keep pending attachment capability current within its draft scope

* fix(native-chat): reserve pending chips before checking dropped files

A local file drop checked each file before adding it, with nothing in the
composer meanwhile: Send during the check went without the file, which then
landed in the next draft; unmounting mid-check lost it; and files queued
behind an input-method composition were lost on unmount.

Drops now reserve a pending chip per file before the check, so Send waits
as it already does for server-upload drops. The prepared attachment travels
through the existing composition queue as one operation, settles into its
draft scope after unmount, releases its chips when refused or disabled, and
reads the scope's current image capability when it applies.

* test(native-chat): server-upload chip calls carry no options without paste

* refactor(native-chat): move the composer's image chip list into its own hook

Main's server-owned paste pushed the attachments hook past the file length limit.

* fix(native-chat): a screenshot picture pastes as a picture on macOS, even beside its saved file

macOS lists a screenshot tool's saved file beside its picture, so the paste read as a file copy and attached nothing once the file was gone. Only a Finder copy also names its files as text.

* fix(native-chat): a macOS right-click paste lets the clipboard tell Finder files from a screenshot

The paste event hides Finder's file names, so a path-backed picture reserves its chip at once and the native clipboard decides: named files go to the drop route, a screenshot's picture is saved from the clipboard. Both paste routes now share the clipboard-picture save.

* test(native-chat): move the paste hook's test probe into its own fixtures file

The paste tests outgrew the test file length limit.

* test(native-chat): hand the paste probe's hook result out after render

* test(native-chat): give the remote image paste probe the copied-files callback

* fix(native-chat): a pending attachment chip shows a spinner and its name, not a stacked icon

A local drop now waits as a pending chip, which drew the kind icon, the file name and a centered spinner on top of each other. Without a thumbnail the chip shows the spinner above the name; with one, the dimmed picture keeps a spinner strip along its bottom.

* test(native-chat): a pending chip shows its name and spinner, no kind icon

* fix(native-chat): a macOS file paste keeps its own chips until the clipboard decides

A macOS paste of Finder files reserved one placeholder chip, asked the native
clipboard whether it held files or a screenshot picture, and then started a
separate attach for the files. Removing the placeholder did not cancel that
attach, and leaving the chat before the answer lost the paste.

The paste now reserves one chip per copied file before asking, and captures
the drop route's intake (owner, destination, chips) at the same moment. Files
continue those exact chips through the existing local check or server upload,
so removal cancels by the original chip and an unmounted composer still
finishes into its draft. A picture keeps the first chip and drops the rest.
Ordinary drops and the picker keep their fresh-admission checks.

* test(native-chat): a macOS file paste survives removal, unmount and disable through the real intake

Drives the real pending cache, composer attachments, external intake and paste
hook with a delayed clipboard answer: removed chips never attach (before or
after the answer, through input-method composition), an unmount finishes both
the local and paired-server routes into the original draft with the original
chip IDs, and disabling the composer meanwhile does not bring the paste back.
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