@kolkrabbi/kol-component 0.216.0 → 0.217.0

package/src/organisms/MediaLibraryPages.jsx

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import ToggleCheckbox from '../atoms/ToggleCheckbox.jsx'
 import ViewToggle from '../atoms/ViewToggle.jsx'
 import Dropdown from '../molecules/Dropdown.jsx'
 import ContentCard from '../molecules/ContentCard.jsx'
+import MediaTile from '../molecules/MediaTile.jsx'
 import ContentRow from '../molecules/ContentRow.jsx'
 import SortControls from '../molecules/SortControls.jsx'
 import SearchInput from '../molecules/SearchInput.jsx'
@@ -18,15 +19,19 @@ import MobileTabBar, { TABBAR_H } from '../molecules/MobileTabBar.jsx'
 import { MenuItem, MenuDropdownItem, MenuDropdownDivider } from '../molecules/MenuItem.jsx'
 import { Tooltip } from '../utilities/Popover.jsx'
 import ContextMenu, { useContextMenu } from '../utilities/ContextMenu.jsx'
+import useMarquee from '../hooks/useMarquee.js'
 import KindPreview from '../molecules/KindPreview.jsx'
 import AudioSheet from '../molecules/AudioSheet.jsx'
 import VideoSheet from '../molecules/VideoSheet.jsx'
+import QuickLookFrame from '../molecules/QuickLookFrame.jsx'
 import { formatLength } from '../molecules/AudioPreview.jsx'
 import FullscreenOverlay from '../utilities/FullscreenOverlay.jsx'
+import { useModal } from '../molecules/Modal.jsx'
 import ContentFilters from './ContentFilters.jsx'
-import ColumnBrowser from './ColumnBrowser.jsx'
+import ShellSearchOverlay from './ShellSearchOverlay.jsx'
+import ColumnBrowser, { isFileDrag, Preview as ColumnPreview, SelectionPreview } from './ColumnBrowser.jsx'
 import SettingsPanel, { LabeledControlSection, SettingsRow, SettingsSwitch, SettingsChoice, SettingsMulti, SettingsFooter } from './SettingsPanel.jsx'
-import { kindOf, KIND_LABEL, KINDS, DEFAULT_KINDS, isSystemFile, isSegment, groupSegments, groupVariants, posterFor, partition } from '../utilities/mediaKinds.js'
+import { kindOf, extOf, KIND_LABEL, KINDS, DEFAULT_KINDS, isSystemFile, isSegment, groupSegments, groupVariants, posterFor, partition } from '../utilities/mediaKinds.js'
 import { nearestRatio } from '../utilities/ratios.js'
 
 /* taxonomy-ok: organism — the two media pages composed of DS parts. */
@@ -60,6 +65,15 @@ import { nearestRatio } from '../utilities/ratios.js'
  * controlled through `settings` / `onSettingsChange` so a consumer persists them.
  */
 
+/* THE ROW VIEW'S COLUMNS (user 2026-09-22). OFF by default and `rowColumns` turns them on: with
+ * them off a row is a name, and every fact about it is one click away in the preview. On, the
+ * header and both row kinds read these same widths — drag a header divider and both move — and the
+ * values sit LEFT in their column, as the reference draws them. */
+const ROW_COL_DEFAULTS = { date: 96, size: 80 }
+const ROW_COL_MIN = 56
+const ROW_COL_MAX = 240
+const rowColWidths = (settings) => ({ ...ROW_COL_DEFAULTS, ...(settings.rowColumnWidths ?? {}) })
+
 /* ── the settings model — kol-r2b2's lib/settings.js BASE, verbatim ───────── */
 export const ALL_KINDS = [...KINDS, 'segments', 'system']
 export const SETTINGS_BASE = {
@@ -73,19 +87,34 @@ export const SETTINGS_BASE = {
   folderView: 'columns', // 'rows' | 'columns'
   sortBy: 'name',
   sortDir: 'asc',
-  columnHeight: 528,
+  columnHeight: 528, // px, or any CSS length — forwarded to ColumnBrowser `height` untouched
   columnWidths: {},
+  rowPreview: true, // row view's preview pane beside the list (Finder's "Show preview")
+  view: 'columns', // 'columns' | 'rows' | 'grid' | 'list' — the ONE view state (2026-09-22)
+  filters: false, // the filter bar above the body; off until asked for
+  rowColumns: false, // row view's Date/Size columns + their header; off, a row is just its name
+  rowColumnWidths: { ...ROW_COL_DEFAULTS }, // px, dragged on the header's own dividers
 }
 
+/* THE FOUR VIEWS (the merge, user 2026-09-22: "they both just display files"). Columns and rows
+ * walk the tree; grid and list are the same files as a wall. One switch, one surface, one listing —
+ * `BROWSE · FILES` was two pages pretending to be two products. */
+/* THREE, NOT FOUR (user 2026-09-23: *"list view is the same as row view now..so redundant"*). It
+ * was: the wall's list is a row per file with a thumbnail, which is what the row view became the
+ * moment it took the pane, the columns and the preview. A stored `list` lands on `rows`. */
+const VIEW_OPTIONS = [
+  { value: 'columns', label: 'Columns', icon: 'columns' },
+  /* `rows` in the set is a BRANCH glyph, not a row stack — the tree list takes `row` (stacked
+   * bands) and the file list the four rules of `view-list`. */
+  { value: 'rows', label: 'Rows', icon: 'row' },
+  { value: 'grid', label: 'Grid', icon: 'grid' },
+]
+
 const LAYOUT_OPTIONS = [
   { value: 'grid', label: 'Grid', icon: 'grid' },
   { value: 'list', label: 'List', icon: 'view-list' },
   { value: 'off', label: 'Off', icon: 'eye-off' },
 ]
-const FOLDER_VIEW_OPTIONS = [
-  { value: 'rows', label: 'Rows', icon: 'view-list' },
-  { value: 'columns', label: 'Columns', icon: 'columns' },
-]
 /* the stack view the `···` switches (item 15) — the same two ColumnBrowser
  * carries below `md`, named as the references name them */
 const STACK_VIEW_OPTIONS = [
@@ -173,25 +202,36 @@ function ImageFrame({ src }) {
   )
 }
 
-/* `struck` = folder grouping is bypassed (flat mode) — still navigable, de-emphasised.
- *
- * `depth` indents a row under the folder it was expanded from; `expanded`/`onToggle` draw the
+
+/* `depth` indents a row under the folder it was expanded from; `expanded`/`onToggle` draw the
  * disclosure twisty. A folder row without `onToggle` keeps the old behaviour exactly — one chevron
  * that navigates — so nothing that already renders these moves. */
-function FolderRow({ name, onClick, struck = false, depth = 0, expanded, onToggle, meta, onContextMenu, drag, selected }) {
+function FolderRow({ name, onClick, onDoubleClick, depth = 0, expanded, onToggle, meta, cols, onContextMenu, drag, dropFiles, selected, current, markKey }) {
   const [over, setOver] = useState(false)
   /* A FOLDER IS A DROP TARGET. `drag` carries the page's move verb and the path this row is; the
    * row highlights only while something is actually over it, so an accidental hover reads as
    * nothing. Without `drag` every handler below is undefined and the row is exactly what it was. */
-  const dropProps = drag ? {
-    draggable: true,
-    onDragStart: (e) => { e.stopPropagation(); drag.onDragStart(e, drag.path) },
-    onDragOver: (e) => { if (drag.canDrop(drag.path)) { e.preventDefault(); setOver(true) } },
+  /* `dropFiles(files)` is the OS half: desktop files dropped here go to the consumer's upload. */
+  const takesFiles = (e) => dropFiles && isFileDrag(e)
+  /* A CLICK TAKES THE WHOLE ROW, A DRAG STARTS WHERE YOU PRESSED (user 2026-09-23: *"the example
+   * I used before … was more about the ability to make a marquee selection, not to make it difficult
+   * to select row items"*). Click, double-click and ⌘/⇧-click land anywhere on the row. The icon and
+   * name (`data-hit`) carry the drag-to-move and the pointer; a press-and-drag anywhere else on the
+   * row draws the marquee (`data-hit-zone`, `useMarquee`). The DROP stays on the whole row. */
+  const hitDrag = drag ? { draggable: true, onDragStart: (e) => { e.stopPropagation(); drag.onDragStart(e, drag.path) } } : {}
+  const dropProps = drag || dropFiles ? {
+    onDragOver: (e) => { if (takesFiles(e) || (drag && !isFileDrag(e) && drag.canDrop(drag.path))) { e.preventDefault(); setOver(true) } },
     onDragLeave: () => setOver(false),
-    onDrop: (e) => { e.preventDefault(); e.stopPropagation(); setOver(false); drag.onDrop(drag.path) },
+    onDrop: (e) => {
+      e.preventDefault(); e.stopPropagation(); setOver(false)
+      if (takesFiles(e)) dropFiles(e.dataTransfer.files)
+      else if (drag && !isFileDrag(e)) drag.onDrop(drag.path)
+    },
   } : {}
   return (
-    <li onContextMenu={onContextMenu} {...dropProps} className={`flex items-center gap-3 py-2 border-b cursor-pointer transition-colors px-1 rounded ${over ? 'bg-fg-08' : selected ? 'bg-fg-04' : 'hover:bg-fg-04'}`} style={{ borderColor: 'var(--kol-fg-08)', paddingLeft: depth * 20 + 4 }} onClick={onClick}>
+    /* THE COLUMN BROWSER'S ROW (user 2026-09-22): `kol-column-browser-row` carries the 4px pill
+     * inset, the selected fill and the drop fill; no divider, as the columns have none. */
+    <li onContextMenu={onContextMenu} {...dropProps} data-marquee-key={markKey} data-hit-zone data-drop-over={over || undefined} className={`kol-column-browser-row flex items-center gap-3 py-2 px-3 transition-colors${selected ? ' is-selected' : ''}${current ? ' is-current' : ''}`} style={{ paddingLeft: depth * 20 + 12 }} onClick={onClick} onDoubleClick={onDoubleClick}>
       {onToggle ? (
         <button type="button" aria-label={expanded ? `Collapse ${name}` : `Expand ${name}`} aria-expanded={!!expanded}
           onClick={(e) => { e.stopPropagation(); onToggle() }}
@@ -200,10 +240,23 @@ function FolderRow({ name, onClick, struck = false, depth = 0, expanded, onToggl
           <Icon name="chevron-right" size={12} />
         </button>
       ) : <span className="w-4 shrink-0" />}
-      <div className="w-8 h-8 shrink-0 flex items-center justify-center text-fg-48"><Icon name="folder" size={18} /></div>
-      <span className={`kol-mono-12 flex-1 min-w-0 truncate ${struck ? 'line-through text-fg-48' : 'text-fg-default'}`}>{name}</span>
-      {meta && <span className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-32 shrink-0">{meta}</span>}
-      <Icon name="chevron-right" size={14} className="text-fg-32 shrink-0" />
+      {/* THE FOLDER GLYPH IS THE ONE ICON LEFT, so it fills its box (user 2026-09-23: *"only folder
+          should use icon, and it should be bigger"*). Every other kind now renders its own bytes. */}
+      <span data-hit {...hitDrag} className="kol-row-hit flex items-center gap-3 min-w-0">
+        <span className="w-8 h-8 shrink-0 flex items-center justify-center text-oq-48"><Icon name="folder" size={26} /></span>
+        {/* NO TRAILING SLASH (user 2026-09-22). `partition` hands folders back as `audio/` because a
+            slash is what marks one in a flat key space; that is storage's spelling, not a label, and
+            `ColumnBrowser` has always stripped it. The glyph says "folder". */}
+        <span className="kol-mono-12 min-w-0 truncate text-fg-default">{name.replace(/\/$/, '')}</span>
+      </span>
+      <span className="flex-1" />
+      {/* THE FOLDER'S COUNT SITS IN THE DATE COLUMN and the size column takes a dash — the columns
+          line up or the header above them is a lie. The trailing chevron went with them: it
+          promised a click that opens, and a click now SELECTS (opening is a double-click). */}
+      {cols && <>
+        <span className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-32 shrink-0 truncate" style={{ width: cols.date }}>{meta}</span>
+        <span className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-24 shrink-0 truncate" style={{ width: cols.size }}>—</span>
+      </>}
     </li>
   )
 }
@@ -211,7 +264,7 @@ function FolderRow({ name, onClick, struck = false, depth = 0, expanded, onToggl
 /* One expanded level, drawn inline under its folder, recursing for anything expanded beneath it —
  * the disclosure behaviour a list view is expected to have. Depth only indents; the data comes from
  * the same `rowLevel` the top level uses, so an expanded branch cannot disagree with the columns. */
-function RowSubtree({ level, depth, rowLevel, expanded, onToggle, onOpenFolder, onOpenFile, formatDate, folderMeta, thumbnailFor, flat, onRowContextMenu, dragFor }) {
+function RowSubtree({ level, depth, rowLevel, expanded, onToggle, onOpenFolder, onPickFolder, onOpenFile, onPickFile, formatDate, folderMeta, thumbnailFor, cols, onRowContextMenu, dragFor, dropFilesTo, pickedKey, currentKey, selectRow, order, selectedKeys }) {
   const { folders, files } = rowLevel(level)
   return (
     <>
@@ -221,26 +274,38 @@ function RowSubtree({ level, depth, rowLevel, expanded, onToggle, onOpenFolder,
         return (
           <Fragment key={path}>
             <FolderRow
-              name={f} depth={depth} struck={flat} expanded={open}
+              name={f} depth={depth} expanded={open}
+              markKey={path}
               meta={folderMeta?.(path) || undefined}
+              cols={cols}
               onToggle={() => onToggle(path)}
-              onContextMenu={(e) => onRowContextMenu?.(e, { type: 'folder', path })}
+              onContextMenu={(e) => onRowContextMenu?.(e, { type: 'folder', path, targets: selectedKeys?.has(path) ? [...selectedKeys] : [path] })}
               drag={dragFor?.(path)}
-              onClick={() => onOpenFolder(path)}
+              dropFiles={dropFilesTo?.(path)}
+              selected={pickedKey === path || !!selectedKeys?.has(path)}
+              current={currentKey === path}
+              /* SELECTION IS THE SAME HERE AS AT THE ROOT (user 2026-09-23). These rows had no
+               * `selectRow` at all, so ⌘-click picked instead of adding — which is why a drag
+               * carried one item however many looked lit. */
+              onClick={(e) => { if (!selectRow?.(path, e, order)) onPickFolder(path) }}
+              onDoubleClick={() => onOpenFolder(path)}
             />
             {open && <RowSubtree
               level={path} depth={depth + 1} rowLevel={rowLevel} expanded={expanded} onToggle={onToggle}
-              onOpenFolder={onOpenFolder} onOpenFile={onOpenFile} onRowContextMenu={onRowContextMenu} dragFor={dragFor}
-              formatDate={formatDate} folderMeta={folderMeta} thumbnailFor={thumbnailFor} flat={flat}
+              onOpenFolder={onOpenFolder} onPickFolder={onPickFolder} onOpenFile={onOpenFile} onPickFile={onPickFile} onRowContextMenu={onRowContextMenu} dragFor={dragFor} dropFilesTo={dropFilesTo} pickedKey={pickedKey} currentKey={currentKey} cols={cols}
+              selectRow={selectRow} order={order} selectedKeys={selectedKeys}
+              formatDate={formatDate} folderMeta={folderMeta} thumbnailFor={thumbnailFor}
             />}
           </Fragment>
         )
       })}
       {files.map((o) => (
-        <FileRow key={o.key} o={o} depth={depth} formatDate={formatDate} thumb={thumbnailFor?.(o)}
-          onContextMenu={(e) => onRowContextMenu?.(e, { type: 'file', path: o.key, o })}
+        <FileRow key={o.key} o={o} depth={depth} formatDate={formatDate} thumb={thumbnailFor?.(o)} cols={cols}
+          selected={pickedKey === o.key || !!selectedKeys?.has(o.key)}
+          onContextMenu={(e) => onRowContextMenu?.(e, { type: 'file', path: o.key, o, targets: selectedKeys?.has(o.key) ? [...selectedKeys] : [o.key] })}
           drag={dragFor?.(o.key)}
-          onClick={() => onOpenFile(o)} />
+          onClick={(e) => { if (!selectRow?.(o.key, e, order)) onPickFile(o) }}
+          onDoubleClick={() => onOpenFile(o)} />
       ))}
     </>
   )
@@ -249,24 +314,130 @@ function RowSubtree({ level, depth, rowLevel, expanded, onToggle, onOpenFolder,
 /* The file half of the row view. Row view listed FOLDERS ONLY and dropped `files` on the floor, so
  * `#img/` drew two rows where the column browser drew four — the two folders, the empty folder the
  * columns knew about, and a file. A list view that cannot show a file is not a list view. */
-function FileRow({ o, onClick, depth = 0, formatDate, thumb, onContextMenu, drag, selected }) {
+function FileRow({ o, onClick, onDoubleClick, depth = 0, formatDate, thumb, cols, onContextMenu, drag, selected, markKey }) {
   const dragProps = drag ? { draggable: true, onDragStart: (e) => { e.stopPropagation(); drag.onDragStart(e, o.key) } } : {}
   return (
-    <li onContextMenu={onContextMenu} {...dragProps} className={`flex items-center gap-3 py-2 border-b cursor-pointer transition-colors px-1 rounded ${selected ? 'bg-fg-04' : 'hover:bg-fg-04'}`} style={{ borderColor: 'var(--kol-fg-08)', paddingLeft: depth * 20 + 4 }} onClick={onClick}>
+    <li onContextMenu={onContextMenu} data-marquee-key={markKey ?? o.key} data-hit-zone className={`kol-column-browser-row flex items-center gap-3 py-2 px-3 transition-colors${selected ? ' is-selected' : ''}`} style={{ paddingLeft: depth * 20 + 12 }} onClick={onClick} onDoubleClick={onDoubleClick}>
       <span className="w-4 shrink-0" />
-      <div className="w-8 h-8 shrink-0 flex items-center justify-center text-fg-48 overflow-hidden rounded">
-        {thumb ?? <Icon name={kindOf(o) === 'image' ? 'image' : 'file'} size={18} />}
-      </div>
-      <span className="kol-mono-12 flex-1 min-w-0 truncate text-fg-default">{o.displayKey ?? o.key.split('/').pop()}</span>
-      <span className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-32 shrink-0">{formatDate?.(o.uploaded)}</span>
-      <span className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-32 shrink-0 w-20 text-right">{formatSize(o.size)}</span>
+      {/* the hit — icon and name, as in the folder row above */}
+      <span data-hit {...dragProps} className="kol-row-hit flex items-center gap-3 min-w-0">
+        <span className="w-8 h-8 shrink-0 flex items-center justify-center text-oq-48 overflow-hidden rounded">
+          {thumb ?? <Icon name={kindOf(o) === 'image' ? 'image' : 'file'} size={18} />}
+        </span>
+        <span className="kol-mono-12 min-w-0 truncate text-fg-default">{o.displayKey ?? o.key.split('/').pop()}</span>
+      </span>
+      <span className="flex-1" />
+      {cols && <>
+        <span className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-32 shrink-0 truncate" style={{ width: cols.date }}>{formatDate?.(o.uploaded)}</span>
+        <span className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-32 shrink-0 truncate" style={{ width: cols.size }}>{formatSize(o.size)}</span>
+      </>}
     </li>
   )
 }
 
+/* A FOLDER HAS A PREVIEW TOO (user 2026-09-22, against Finder: selecting a folder fills the pane).
+ * The columns never needed one — stepping into a folder IS its preview there — so this is the row
+ * view's, and it is the page's rather than ColumnBrowser's because the counts come off the same
+ * `objects` the page already holds. Same shell as the file preview, so the pane never shifts. */
+function FolderPreview({ path, objects, width, formatDate }) {
+  const inside = objects.filter((o) => o.key.startsWith(path))
+  const bytes = inside.reduce((n, o) => n + (o.size ?? 0), 0)
+  const last = inside.reduce((t, o) => (o.uploaded && o.uploaded > t ? o.uploaded : t), '')
+  const facts = [
+    ['Kind', 'folder'],
+    ['Items', `${inside.length}`],
+    ['Size', formatSize(bytes)],
+    ...(last ? [['Newest', formatDate(last) || '—']] : []),
+  ]
+  return (
+    <div className="kol-column-browser-preview shrink-0 overflow-y-auto p-4 flex flex-col gap-4" style={{ width }}>
+      <div className="w-full aspect-square bg-oq-04 rounded flex items-center justify-center">
+        <Icon name="folder" size={64} className="text-oq-48" />
+      </div>
+      <p className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-default break-all">{path.replace(/\/$/, '').split('/').pop()}</p>
+      <dl className="flex flex-col gap-1">
+        {facts.map(([k, v]) => (
+          <div key={k} className="flex justify-between gap-4 kol-mono-12">
+            <dt className="text-fg-48">{k}</dt>
+            <dd className="text-fg-default text-right break-all">{v}</dd>
+          </div>
+        ))}
+      </dl>
+    </div>
+  )
+}
+
+/* THE COLUMN HEADER — Name · Date · Size, each one the sort control for its own column (user
+ * 2026-09-22). Unlabelled meta at the end of a row is a number nobody can read a column of; a
+ * header names them AND gives them the one behaviour a labelled column implies. Clicking the
+ * active column flips the direction, which is what every file manager does. It writes the SAME
+ * `sortBy`/`sortDir` the files wall's own SortControls write, so the two views cannot disagree.
+ *
+ * FINDER'S SHAPE, on the user's read of it (2026-09-22): the header sits ABOVE the pane rather
+ * than inside it — it labels the list, it is not a row of it — the labels are sentence case, and a
+ * hairline divides each column from the one before it. `PAD` is the rows' own inset (the pane's
+ * 1px border + the row pill's 4px margin + the row's 12px padding), so a label lands over the
+ * column it names; it is derived here rather than typed, because those three numbers are the ones
+ * that move. */
+const ROW_PAD = 1 + 4 + 12
+
+function RowHeader({ sortBy = 'name', sortDir = 'asc', onSort, width, cols, onResize }) {
+  const label = (key, text) => {
+    const active = sortBy === key
+    return (
+      <button type="button" onClick={() => onSort(key, active && sortDir === 'asc' ? 'desc' : 'asc')}
+        aria-sort={active ? (sortDir === 'desc' ? 'descending' : 'ascending') : 'none'}
+        className={`kol-helper-12 cursor-pointer inline-flex items-center gap-1 w-full transition-colors ${active ? 'text-fg-default' : 'text-fg-48 hover:text-fg-default'}`}>
+        {text}
+        {active && <Icon name={sortDir === 'desc' ? 'arrow-up' : 'arrow-down'} size={9} />}
+      </button>
+    )
+  }
+  /* EACH DIVIDER RESIZES THE COLUMN TO ITS RIGHT — those are the fixed ones; Name takes whatever is
+   * left, so there is nothing to drag on its side. Pointer capture, no library, same gesture the
+   * column browser's own edges use. */
+  const handle = (key) => (
+    <span
+      role="separator" aria-orientation="vertical" aria-label={`Resize ${key} column`}
+      className="cursor-col-resize"
+      /* inline, not utilities: it must be OUT OF FLOW or it pushes the label 8px off the column
+         it names — which is exactly what it did */
+      style={{ position: 'absolute', top: 0, bottom: 0, left: -4, width: 8 }}
+      onPointerDown={(e) => {
+        e.preventDefault()
+        e.currentTarget.setPointerCapture(e.pointerId)
+        const startX = e.clientX
+        const base = cols[key]
+        const move = (ev) => onResize(key, Math.max(ROW_COL_MIN, Math.min(ROW_COL_MAX, Math.round(base - (ev.clientX - startX)))))
+        const up = () => { window.removeEventListener('pointermove', move); window.removeEventListener('pointerup', up) }
+        window.addEventListener('pointermove', move)
+        window.addEventListener('pointerup', up)
+      }}
+    />
+  )
+  const column = (key, text) => (
+    /* no left padding: the label shares its column's left edge with the values under it */
+    <div key={key} className="relative shrink-0 border-l" style={{ width: cols[key], borderColor: 'var(--kol-oq-08)' }}>
+      {handle(key)}
+      {label(key, text)}
+    </div>
+  )
+  return (
+    /* the right padding carries TWO extra pixels of borders — the pane's own and the cell's divider
+       — which is what a label sitting two pixels right of its column looks like */
+    <div className="flex items-center gap-3 shrink-0" style={{ width, paddingLeft: ROW_PAD, paddingRight: ROW_PAD + 2 }}>
+      <span className="w-4 shrink-0" aria-hidden="true" />
+      <span className="w-8 shrink-0" aria-hidden="true" />
+      <span className="flex-1 min-w-0">{label('name', 'Name')}</span>
+      {column('date', 'Date')}
+      {column('size', 'Size')}
+    </div>
+  )
+}
+
 /**
  * MediaInspector — the full-screen viewer for one file in a set: image, video
- * (scrubbable, audio on), audio, or a document page, with the facts line and
+ * (scrubbable, audio on), audio, or a document page, in one `QuickLookFrame`, with
  * prev / next fixed at the viewport edges.
  *
  * PUBLIC SINCE 2026-09-04 (user ruling, off `ColumnBrowserMobileViews`: the
@@ -288,10 +459,14 @@ function FileRow({ o, onClick, depth = 0, formatDate, thumb, onContextMenu, drag
  * @param {Function} mediaUrl - `(key) => url` — the consumer's media resolver
  * @param {Function} downloadUrl - `(key) => url` for the download control
  * @param {Set|Object} keySet - The bucket's key set, used to find a video's poster
+ * @param {boolean} showNav - ‹ › and n / N in the header (default on); off when not paging a selection
  */
-export function MediaInspector({ files, index, onClose, onPrev, onNext, mediaUrl, downloadUrl, keySet }) {
+export function MediaInspector({ files, index, onClose, onPrev, onNext, mediaUrl, downloadUrl, keySet, showNav = true }) {
   const o = files[index]
   const [dims, setDims] = useState(null)
+  /* the window's size survives paging — Finder keeps it — so it lives here, not in the frame,
+   * which remounts whenever the kind changes */
+  const [size, setSize] = useState(null)
   const shownDims = dims && dims.key === o?.key ? dims : null
   useEffect(() => {
     const onKey = (e) => { if (e.key === 'ArrowLeft') onPrev(); if (e.key === 'ArrowRight') onNext() }
@@ -301,30 +476,53 @@ export function MediaInspector({ files, index, onClose, onPrev, onNext, mediaUrl
   if (!o) return null
   const kind = kindOf(o)
   const poster = kind === 'video' ? posterFor(o.key, keySet) : null
-  const ARROW = 'fixed top-1/2 -translate-y-1/2 z-10 w-10 h-10 flex items-center justify-center rounded text-fg-48 hover:text-fg-default hover:bg-fg-ab-24 transition-colors'
+  /* ONE WINDOW FOR EVERY KIND (user 2026-09-23: *"put them in a container LIKE FINDER"*). The
+   * name, the facts and the download ride the window's header; the transport, when there is one,
+   * its footer. They used to be a caption line under whatever the kind drew. */
+  const facts = [
+    formatSize(o.size),
+    shownDims?.w && `${shownDims.w} × ${shownDims.h} px`,
+    shownDims?.len && formatLength(shownDims.len),
+  ].filter(Boolean).join(' · ')
+  const frame = {
+    title: o.displayKey ?? o.key.split('/').pop(),
+    meta: facts,
+    onClose,
+    /* ‹ › and n / N only when the window pages a SELECTION (user 2026-09-23: *"I only selected one
+     * file, why am I getting the chevrons"*). ← → still step, as Finder's do; the header does not
+     * advertise a set you did not make. `showNav` — the page passes whether several are selected. */
+    nav: showNav ? { index, total: files.length, onPrev, onNext } : undefined,
+    size,
+    onResize: setSize,
+    /* THE TWO READ VERBS (user 2026-09-23): Copy URL beside Download — the window is the one place
+     * besides the right-click menu that carries them */
+    /* THE CLOSE BUTTON'S IDIOM (user 2026-09-23): a filled container read as a second surface on
+     * the header; bare at rest with a wash on hover, `sm` so the glyphs sit with the 12px text. */
+    actions: (
+      <span className="flex items-center gap-1">
+        <CopyAction label="Copy URL" text={mediaUrl(o.key)} />
+        <Tooltip label="Download">
+          <Button variant="nav" size="sm" iconOnly="download" href={downloadUrl(o.key)} download={o.key.split('/').pop()} aria-label="Download" />
+        </Tooltip>
+      </span>
+    ),
+  }
   return (
-    <FullscreenOverlay open onClose={onClose} closeButton={false}>
-      <button type="button" className={`${ARROW} left-6`} onClick={onPrev} disabled={files.length <= 1} aria-label="Previous"><Icon name="chevron-left" size={22} /></button>
-      <div className="max-w-[calc(100vw-10rem)] max-h-[85vh] flex flex-col items-center gap-3">
-        {isImage(o.contentType) ? (
-          <img src={mediaUrl(o.key)} alt={o.displayKey} className="max-w-full max-h-[78vh] object-contain rounded" onLoad={(e) => setDims({ key: o.key, w: e.target.naturalWidth, h: e.target.naturalHeight })} />
-        ) : isVideo(o.contentType) ? (
-          <VideoSheet src={mediaUrl(o.key)} poster={poster ? mediaUrl(poster) : undefined} onMeta={(m) => setDims({ key: o.key, ...m })} />
-        ) : kind === 'audio' ? (
-          <AudioSheet src={mediaUrl(o.key)} onDuration={(len) => setDims({ key: o.key, len })} />
-        ) : (
-          <KindPreview o={o} urlOf={(x) => mediaUrl(x.key)} poster={poster ? mediaUrl(poster) : undefined} />
-        )}
-        <div className="flex items-center gap-4">
-          <span className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-48">{o.displayKey ?? o.key}</span>
-          <span className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-32">{formatSize(o.size)}</span>
-          {shownDims?.w && <span className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-32">{shownDims.w} × {shownDims.h} px</span>}
-          {shownDims?.len && <span className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-32">{formatLength(shownDims.len)}</span>}
-          <ActionButton chrome="inline" size="sm" icon="download" confirmIcon="check" label="Download" confirmLabel="Downloaded" href={downloadUrl(o.key)} />
-        </div>
-        <span className="kol-mono-10 text-fg-24">{index + 1} / {files.length}</span>
-      </div>
-      <button type="button" className={`${ARROW} right-6`} onClick={onNext} disabled={files.length <= 1} aria-label="Next"><Icon name="chevron-right" size={22} /></button>
+    /* QUICK LOOK DIMS, it does not black out — you keep the list you came from in view */
+    <FullscreenOverlay open onClose={onClose} closeButton={false} scrim>
+      {isImage(o.contentType) ? (
+        <QuickLookFrame {...frame}>
+          <img src={mediaUrl(o.key)} alt={o.displayKey} className="kol-quicklook-media" onLoad={(e) => setDims({ key: o.key, w: e.target.naturalWidth, h: e.target.naturalHeight })} />
+        </QuickLookFrame>
+      ) : isVideo(o.contentType) ? (
+        <VideoSheet key={o.key} src={mediaUrl(o.key)} poster={poster ? mediaUrl(poster) : undefined} onMeta={(m) => setDims({ key: o.key, ...m })} frame={frame} />
+      ) : kind === 'audio' ? (
+        <AudioSheet key={o.key} src={mediaUrl(o.key)} ext={extOf(o.key)} onDuration={(len) => setDims({ key: o.key, len })} frame={frame} />
+      ) : (
+        <QuickLookFrame {...frame}>
+          <KindPreview o={o} fit="sheet" urlOf={(x) => mediaUrl(x.key)} poster={poster ? mediaUrl(poster) : undefined} />
+        </QuickLookFrame>
+      )}
     </FullscreenOverlay>
   )
 }
@@ -338,11 +536,19 @@ function MediaSettings({ bucketMeta, settings, onChange, onReset, onClose, profi
   const noVariants = profile.variantSets === 0
   const noSegments = profile.segments === 0
   return (
-    <SettingsPanel variant="drawer" title="Display settings" onClose={onClose} footer={<SettingsFooter onReset={onReset}>{settingsFooter}</SettingsFooter>}>
+    <SettingsPanel variant="drawer" title="Display settings" onClose={onClose} footer={<SettingsFooter onReset={onReset} resetLabel="Reset preferences">{settingsFooter}</SettingsFooter>}>
       <LabeledControlSection label="Structure" rowGap={1} divided>
         <SettingsRow label="Columns" hint="Finder-style columns instead of folder rows">
           <SettingsSwitch label="Columns" on={(settings.folderView ?? 'rows') === 'columns'} onChange={(v) => set({ folderView: v ? 'columns' : 'rows' })} />
         </SettingsRow>
+        <SettingsRow label="Preview" hint="the picked file beside the rows">
+          <SettingsSwitch label="Preview" on={settings.rowPreview ?? true} onChange={(v) => set({ rowPreview: v })} />
+        </SettingsRow>
+        {/* NOT "Columns" — that switch three rows up means Finder's column browser. These are the
+            row view's date/size FIELDS, which is what the user calls them. */}
+        <SettingsRow label="Fields" hint="date and size beside each row, with a sort header">
+          <SettingsSwitch label="Fields" on={!!settings.rowColumns} onChange={(v) => set({ rowColumns: v })} />
+        </SettingsRow>
         <SettingsRow label="Flat" hint="ignore folders, show the whole subtree">
           <SettingsSwitch label="Flat" on={settings.flat} onChange={(v) => set({ flat: v })} />
         </SettingsRow>
@@ -398,8 +604,119 @@ function MediaSettings({ bucketMeta, settings, onChange, onReset, onClose, profi
  * and pushed the gear off the right edge — they resolved it by SWAPPING a
  * control below `md` rather than adding one, which is the pattern to copy. If a
  * consumer needs more than one at this width, it belongs in a sheet, not here. */
-function LibraryHeader({ title, buckets, bucketId, appRoot, onBucket, bucketMeta, writable, headerActions, onSettings, onHome, headerTrailing }) {
-  const options = buckets.length ? [{ value: 'all', label: `${title} · all` }, ...buckets.map((b) => ({ value: b.id, label: b.label }))] : []
+/* A copy control in the header's idiom (the close button's: bare, a wash on hover); the tooltip says it worked. */
+function CopyAction({ label, text }) {
+  const [copied, setCopied] = useState(false)
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!copied) return undefined
+    const t = setTimeout(() => setCopied(false), 1600)
+    return () => clearTimeout(t)
+  }, [copied])
+  return (
+    <Tooltip label={copied ? 'Copied' : label}>
+      <Button variant="nav" size="sm" iconOnly={copied ? 'check' : 'copy'} aria-label={label}
+        onClick={() => { navigator.clipboard?.writeText(text); setCopied(true) }} />
+    </Tooltip>
+  )
+}
+
+/* THE CURRENT CRUMB COPIES THE PATH (user 2026-09-23: *"could we make a hover click to copy path?
+ * … just click and it copies to clipboard, maybe popover tooltip appears 'path copied'"*). It was
+ * a button navigating to where you already were; now it is the one crumb that does something new.
+ * The other crumbs still navigate. */
+function CopyCrumb({ label, path, className }) {
+  const [copied, setCopied] = useState(false)
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!copied) return undefined
+    const t = setTimeout(() => setCopied(false), 1600)
+    return () => clearTimeout(t)
+  }, [copied])
+  return (
+    <Tooltip label={copied ? 'Path copied' : 'Copy path'}>
+      <button type="button" className={className} onClick={() => { navigator.clipboard?.writeText(path); setCopied(true) }}>{label}</button>
+    </Tooltip>
+  )
+}
+
+/* THE TRASH — what delete moved aside, newest first. BUILT FROM PARTS THAT EXIST (user 2026-09-23:
+ * *"follow an example, dont reinvent the wheel"*): the settings drawer's title, a
+ * list in the column browser's own rows, and `SettingsFooter` for Empty trash.
+ *
+ * NO BUTTONS ON THE ROWS (user 2026-09-23: *"remove both x and restore and use context menu for
+ * those items, as single or multiple selection"*). The items select the way files do — click, ⌘ to
+ * add, ⇧ for a run — and right-click offers Restore and Delete forever for the row, or for the
+ * whole selection when the row is in it. Delete forever asks first: it is the one verb here that
+ * cannot be taken back. */
+function TrashPanel({ trash, onClose, run, confirm }) {
+  const items = trash.items ?? []
+  const [sel, setSel] = useState(() => new Set())
+  const anchor = useRef(null)
+  const menu = useContextMenu()
+  const pick = (e, id) => {
+    const ids = items.map((t) => t.id)
+    if (e.shiftKey && anchor.current) {
+      const a = ids.indexOf(anchor.current)
+      const b = ids.indexOf(id)
+      setSel(new Set(ids.slice(Math.min(a, b), Math.max(a, b) + 1)))
+      return
+    }
+    anchor.current = id
+    if (e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey) setSel((prev) => { const n = new Set(prev); n.has(id) ? n.delete(id) : n.add(id); return n })
+    else setSel(new Set([id]))
+  }
+  const targetsFor = (id) => (sel.has(id) ? [...sel] : [id])
+  const restore = (ids) => run(async () => { for (const id of ids) await trash.restore(id); setSel(new Set()) })
+  const purge = async (ids) => {
+    const n = ids.length
+    if (confirm && !(await confirm(`Delete ${n === 1 ? 'this item' : `${n} items`} forever? This cannot be undone.`, { okLabel: 'Delete forever' }))) return
+    run(async () => { for (const id of ids) await trash.purge(id); setSel(new Set()) })
+  }
+  return (
+    <SettingsPanel variant="drawer" title="Trash" onClose={onClose}
+      footer={items.length > 0 && trash.empty ? (
+        <SettingsFooter>
+          <Button variant="primary" size="sm" onClick={async () => {
+            if (confirm && !(await confirm(`Empty the trash? ${items.length} item${items.length === 1 ? '' : 's'} will be gone for good.`, { okLabel: 'Empty trash' }))) return
+            run(async () => { await trash.empty(); setSel(new Set()) })
+          }}>Empty trash</Button>
+        </SettingsFooter>
+      ) : undefined}>
+      {/* THE COLUMN BROWSER'S ROWS, as they are (user 2026-09-23: *"just USE WHAT COLUMN browser
+        * uses. its literally a solved problem"*) — icon, name as spelled, the same selection fill. No
+        * heading, no count: it is the trash, and the files are the content. */}
+      <ul className="kol-column-browser-column flex flex-col">
+        {items.map((t) => {
+          const name = t.path.replace(/\/$/, '').split('/').pop()
+          const icon = t.isFolder ? 'folder' : ({ image: 'image', video: 'video' })[kindOf({ key: t.path })] ?? 'file'
+          return (
+            <li key={t.id} className={`kol-column-browser-row flex items-center gap-3 py-2 px-3 cursor-pointer transition-colors${sel.has(t.id) ? ' is-selected' : ''}`}
+              onClick={(e) => pick(e, t.id)}
+              onContextMenu={(e) => { if (!sel.has(t.id)) { anchor.current = t.id; setSel(new Set([t.id])) } menu.openAt(e, { ids: targetsFor(t.id) }) }}>
+              <span className="w-5 shrink-0 flex items-center justify-center text-oq-48"><Icon name={icon} size={icon === 'folder' ? 18 : 14} /></span>
+              <span className="kol-mono-12 min-w-0 truncate">{name}</span>
+            </li>
+          )
+        })}
+      </ul>
+      <ContextMenu menu={menu}>
+        {(target) => {
+          if (!target) return null
+          const n = target.ids.length
+          return (
+            <>
+              {trash.restore && <MenuDropdownItem iconLeft={<Icon name="refresh" size={14} />} onClick={() => restore(target.ids)}>{n > 1 ? `Restore ${n}` : 'Restore'}</MenuDropdownItem>}
+              {trash.purge && <MenuDropdownItem iconLeft={<Icon name="trash" size={14} />} onClick={() => purge(target.ids)}>{n > 1 ? `Delete ${n} forever` : 'Delete forever'}</MenuDropdownItem>}
+            </>
+          )
+        }}
+      </ContextMenu>
+    </SettingsPanel>
+  )
+}
+
+function LibraryHeader({ title, buckets, bucketId, appRoot, onBucket, bucketMeta, writable, headerActions, onSettings, onTrash, onHome, headerTrailing }) {
+  /* ONE BUCKET, NO DROPDOWN (user 2026-09-22) — a picker with one thing in it chooses nothing. */
+  const options = buckets.length > 1 ? [{ value: 'all', label: `${title} · all` }, ...buckets.map((b) => ({ value: b.id, label: b.label }))] : []
   /* THE WORDMARK IS THE HOME BUTTON when `onHome` is given (user 2026-09-21: "it should reload,
    * like a home button"). The crumb row's root already did exactly this and the wordmark above it
    * did nothing — the one element every file manager makes clickable was the one that was inert.
@@ -424,6 +741,13 @@ function LibraryHeader({ title, buckets, bucketId, appRoot, onBucket, bucketMeta
             <IconFrame name="lock" variant="primary" size="sm" aria-label="Read-only" />
           </Tooltip>
         )}
+        {/* THE TRASH (user 2026-09-23) — the failsafe for every delete. Search moved back to the crumb
+            row, into the well beside the view switch. */}
+        {onTrash && (
+          <Tooltip label="Trash">
+            <IconFrame name="trash" variant="primary" size="sm" onClick={onTrash} aria-label="Trash" />
+          </Tooltip>
+        )}
         <Tooltip label="Display settings">
           <IconFrame name="settings-01" variant="primary" size="sm" onClick={onSettings} aria-label="Display settings" />
         </Tooltip>
@@ -473,6 +797,10 @@ function sortObjects(objects, sortBy = 'name', sortDir = 'asc') {
 
 export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
   client, title = 'MEDIA', bucket, onBucketChange, prefix: prefixProp, onPrefix, defaults, settings: settingsProp, onSettingsChange,
+  /* THE ONE VIEW (2026-09-22): 'columns' | 'rows' | 'grid' | 'list'. Controlled or from settings;
+   * `folderView` and `layout` are kept in step beneath it so a consumer still on those keeps
+   * rendering what it rendered. */
+  view: viewProp, onViewChange,
   folderTree, headerActions, headerTrailing, refreshKey, onOpen, autoFocus = false, settingsFooter, className = '', banner,
   /* THE FILE VERBS, as ONE seam (2026-09-21). `{ createFolder, rename, move, remove }`, each
    * optional and each async; whatever is supplied becomes a right-click menu entry and
@@ -480,8 +808,25 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
    * arrive together — a consumer with a writable store has all of them, one with a read-only
    * bucket has none — and because the page must never have to know WHICH verbs exist to
    * decide whether to draw a menu at all. The consumer re-lists after a mutation by bumping
-   * `refreshKey`; the page does not own the data. */
+   * `refreshKey`; the page does not own the data.
+   *
+   * `fileActions.items` — THE CONSUMER'S OWN VERBS (kol-client-olina 2026-09-22: Duplicate was
+   * a DS publish away, and so would every verb after it be). `[{ label, icon?, when?, run }]`;
+   * each gets the menu's payload `{ type, path, o?, targets? }`, `when` filters per target
+   * (absent = always), and `run` goes through the same busy/error path as the built-ins. They
+   * render AFTER the built-in verbs. Without `items` the menu is exactly what it was. */
   fileActions,
+  /* `onDropFiles(files, folderPath)` — desktop files dropped on a folder row or a level
+   * (kol-client-olina 2026-09-22). The page hands over the `FileList` and the bucket-relative
+   * folder and NEVER uploads: every consumer's pipeline differs. The consumer re-lists through
+   * `refreshKey`, the same contract as `fileActions`. Writable buckets only; absent, nothing. */
+  onDropFiles,
+  /* `trash` — THE FAILSAFE (user 2026-09-23). `{ items, restore(id), purge(id), empty() }`, the
+   * consumer's: `items` is `[{ id, path, deletedAt, isFolder?, count?, size?, expiresAt? }]`, and
+   * `fileActions.remove` is expected to move into it. Given, delete stops asking "this cannot be
+   * undone" — it can — and a trash button opens the list with Restore and Delete forever. The
+   * consumer re-lists through `refreshKey`. Absent, delete is what it was. */
+  trash,
   /* PASS-THROUGHS TO `ColumnBrowser`. A documented prop this page does not
    * forward is a prop no consumer of the PAGE can reach, which makes the seam
    * fictional — `thumbnailFor` and `folderMeta` shipped, were announced, and
@@ -510,50 +855,122 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
   const { buckets, bucketMeta, settings, setSettings, objects, error, mediaUrl, downloadUrl, writable } = lib
   const switchBucket = (id, pfx = '') => { if (bucket == null) setOwnBucket(id); onBucketChange?.(id); setPrefix(pfx) }
   const [settingsOpen, setSettingsOpen] = useState(false)
+  const [trashOpen, setTrashOpen] = useState(false)
   const [pickedFile, setPickedFile] = useState(null)
+  /* ROW VIEW PICKS, and only one at a time: a click selects and fills the preview, a DOUBLE click
+   * opens (user 2026-09-22, Finder's behaviour — "clicking shouldnt automatically open it"). The
+   * chevron still expands in place, which is the third thing and always was. */
+  const [pickedFolder, setPickedFolder] = useState(null)
+  const pickFile = (o) => { setPickedFolder(null); setPickedFile(o) }
+  const pickFolder = (path) => { setPickedFile(null); setPickedFolder(path) }
+  /* IN THE ROWS, WHAT YOU PICK SETS WHERE YOU ARE (user 2026-09-23: *"that files folder becomes the
+   * default NOT the previous folder"*). The list is rooted at the top, so a pick can sit in any open
+   * folder; the current folder follows it to the pick's parent. Whatever the old path had open
+   * STAYS open — moving where you are must not fold up what you were looking at. */
+  const dirOf = (path) => { const t = path.replace(/\/$/, ''); return t.slice(0, t.lastIndexOf('/') + 1) }
+  const moveHereKeepingOpen = (to) => {
+    if (to === prefix) return
+    setExpandedRows((prev) => new Set([...prev, ...openChain(prefix)]))
+    setPrefix(to)
+  }
+  const rowPickFile = (o) => { pickFile(o); moveHereKeepingOpen(dirOf(o.key)) }
+  const rowPickFolder = (path) => { pickFolder(path); moveHereKeepingOpen(dirOf(path)) }
   /* Row view's inline disclosure set — folder paths currently expanded. Kept here rather than in
    * settings: it is a transient reading state, not a preference, and Finder does not persist it
    * across a relaunch either. */
   const [expandedRows, setExpandedRows] = useState(() => new Set())
+  /* THE ROW LIST IS ALWAYS BASED AT THE ROOT (user 2026-09-23: *"row view should not open a path
+   * of the folder its highlighted … rather expand the folders to that location, still showing the
+   * root"*). It used to re-base on `prefix`, so arriving from the columns three folders deep threw
+   * the tree away and showed one level. The path now seeds the EXPANSION instead: every ancestor
+   * opens, the folder you are in reads selected, and the root is still the first row.
+   *
+   * Collapsing a folder ON that path is how you leave it — the chevron cannot fight `prefix` and
+   * win, so it moves `prefix` up instead of flickering back open. */
+  const openChain = (p) => {
+    const out = []
+    let cur = ''
+    for (const seg of p.replace(/\/$/, '').split('/').filter(Boolean)) { cur += `${seg}/`; out.push(cur) }
+    return out
+  }
+  const rowsExpanded = new Set([...expandedRows, ...openChain(prefix)])
+  /* THE VISIBLE ORDER, flattened in render order, so ⇧-click ranges across expanded folders and
+   * not just the level you happen to be on. Built from the same `rowLevel` + expansion the list
+   * draws from, so it cannot disagree with what is on screen. */
+  const visibleRowOrder = (list) => {
+    const out = []
+    const walk = (level) => {
+      const { folders, files } = rowLevel(level, list)
+      for (const f of folders) {
+        const path = level + f
+        out.push(path)
+        if (rowsExpanded.has(path)) walk(path)
+      }
+      for (const o of files) out.push(o.key)
+    }
+    walk('')
+    return out
+  }
+  const toggleRow = (path) => {
+    if (openChain(prefix).includes(path)) { setPrefix(path.replace(/[^/]+\/$/, '')); return }
+    setExpandedRows((prev) => {
+      const next = new Set(prev)
+      next.has(path) ? next.delete(path) : next.add(path)
+      return next
+    })
+  }
 
   /* ── THE FILE VERBS ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
    * Right-click is the surface; `fileActions` is the implementation. The page owns neither the
    * data nor the store — it collects an intent, asks for the one piece of text it needs, calls
-   * the consumer's verb and lets the consumer re-list. `prompt`/`confirm` are deliberate: this
-   * file already uses both for batch move and delete, and inventing a dialog here would be a
-   * second modal idiom in one component. */
+   * the consumer's verb and lets the consumer re-list. The asking goes through `useModal()` —
+   * the DS's one dialog idiom — so a consumer that mounts `ModalProvider` gets DS dialogs and one
+   * that does not gets the native ones, exactly as before (kol-client-olina 2026-09-22: the
+   * browser's own grey prompt box was the last non-DS surface on media.olina-productions.com). */
   const menu = useContextMenu()
+  const modal = useModal()
   const canWrite = !!fileActions && writable
   const [busyAction, setBusyAction] = useState(false)
 
   const runAction = async (fn) => {
     if (!fn) return
     setBusyAction(true)
-    try { await fn() } catch (e) { alert(e.message) } finally { setBusyAction(false) }
+    try { await fn() } catch (e) { await modal.alert(e.message) } finally { setBusyAction(false) }
   }
 
-  const doCreateFolder = (parent) => {
-    const name = prompt(`New folder in ${parent || 'the bucket root'}:`)
+  const doCreateFolder = async (parent) => {
+    const name = await modal.prompt(`New folder in ${parent || 'the bucket root'}:`, '', { okLabel: 'Create' })
     if (!name?.trim()) return
     runAction(() => fileActions.createFolder(`${parent}${name.trim().replace(/^\/+|\/+$/g, '')}/`))
   }
-  const doCreateFile = (parent) => {
-    const name = prompt(`New file in ${parent || 'the bucket root'}:`, 'untitled.txt')
+  const doCreateFile = async (parent) => {
+    const name = await modal.prompt(`New file in ${parent || 'the bucket root'}:`, 'untitled.txt', { okLabel: 'Create' })
     if (!name?.trim()) return
     runAction(() => fileActions.createFile(`${parent}${name.trim().replace(/^\/+/, '')}`))
   }
-  const doRename = (path, isFolder) => {
+  const doRename = async (path, isFolder) => {
     const current = path.replace(/\/$/, '').split('/').pop()
-    const name = prompt(`Rename ${isFolder ? 'folder' : 'file'}:`, current)
+    const name = await modal.prompt(`Rename ${isFolder ? 'folder' : 'file'}:`, current, { okLabel: 'Rename' })
     if (!name?.trim() || name === current) return
     const parent = path.replace(/\/$/, '').slice(0, path.replace(/\/$/, '').length - current.length)
     runAction(() => fileActions.rename(path, `${parent}${name.trim()}${isFolder ? '/' : ''}`))
   }
-  const doMove = (path) => {
-    const dest = prompt(`Move into which folder? (blank = bucket root)`, prefix)
-    if (dest === null) return
+  const doMove = async (path) => {
+    const dest = await modal.prompt(`Move into which folder? (blank = bucket root)`, prefix, { okLabel: 'Move' })
+    if (dest == null) return
     const clean = dest ? `${dest.replace(/^\/+|\/+$/g, '')}/` : ''
-    runAction(() => fileActions.move(path, clean))
+    runAction(async () => { await fileActions.move(path, clean); afterMove([path], clean) })
+  }
+  /* A MOVE KEEPS WHAT YOU MOVED IN HAND (user 2026-09-23: *"they should remain selected and new
+   * location shown"*). The set is re-keyed to where the items now live, and the target comes into
+   * view: expanded in place in the rows, navigated into in the columns and the grid. */
+  const afterMove = (paths, dest) => {
+    const moved = paths.map((p) => `${dest}${p.replace(/\/$/, '').split('/').pop()}${p.endsWith('/') ? '/' : ''}`)
+    setPickedFile(null); setPickedFolder(null)
+    setRowSelection(new Set(moved))
+    selectAnchorRef.current = moved[0] ?? null
+    if (view === 'rows') setExpandedRows((prev) => new Set([...prev, ...openChain(dest)]))
+    else setPrefix(dest)
   }
   /* DRAG TO MOVE. HTML5 drag-and-drop, not a pointer-tracking implementation: the rows are a list,
    * the targets are folders, and the browser already does the hit-testing and the cursor. The
@@ -567,11 +984,23 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
    * tree you are still walking. The menu acts on the whole set when the clicked row is in it. */
   const [rowSelection, setRowSelection] = useState(() => new Set())
   const selectAnchorRef = useRef(null)
+  /* where the keyboard IS, apart from where a ⇧ run began — null means "at the anchor" */
+  const selectCursorRef = useRef(null)
+  /* DRAG A BAND ACROSS THE LIST (user 2026-09-22). The same set the ⌘/⇧ clicks build, so the menu
+   * acts on a dragged selection exactly as it does on a clicked one. */
+  const marqueeSelect = (keys, additive) => setRowSelection((prev) => (additive ? new Set([...prev, ...keys]) : new Set(keys)))
+  const rowsMarquee = useMarquee({ onSelect: marqueeSelect })
+  const gridMarquee = useMarquee({ onSelect: marqueeSelect })
 
   const selectRow = (path, e, orderedPaths) => {
+    selectCursorRef.current = null
     const additive = e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey
     const ranged = e.shiftKey && selectAnchorRef.current
-    if (!additive && !ranged) { setRowSelection(new Set()); selectAnchorRef.current = path; return false }
+    /* A PLAIN CLICK IS A SELECTION OF ONE (user 2026-09-23). It used to CLEAR the set and only
+     * "pick" the row for the preview, so a row could look selected while the set was empty — and
+     * a drag, which carries the set, then took one fewer item than the screen showed. The pick and
+     * the selection are the same act; `false` still tells the caller to preview it. */
+    if (!additive && !ranged) { setRowSelection(new Set([path])); selectAnchorRef.current = path; return false }
     e.preventDefault()
     setRowSelection((prev) => {
       const next = new Set(prev)
@@ -593,13 +1022,13 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
    * unrelated row from silently deleting five things. */
   const targetsFor = (path) => (rowSelection.has(path) ? [...rowSelection] : [path])
 
-  const doBatch = (paths, verb, label) => {
+  const doBatch = async (paths, verb, label) => {
     if (paths.length === 1) return null
-    if (label === 'Delete' && !confirm(`Delete ${paths.length} items? This cannot be undone.`)) return null
+    if (label === 'Delete' && !trash && !(await modal.confirm(`Delete ${paths.length} items? This cannot be undone.`, { okLabel: 'Delete' }))) return null
     let dest = null
     if (label === 'Move') {
-      dest = prompt(`Move ${paths.length} items into which folder? (blank = bucket root)`, prefix)
-      if (dest === null) return null
+      dest = await modal.prompt(`Move ${paths.length} items into which folder? (blank = bucket root)`, prefix, { okLabel: 'Move' })
+      if (dest == null) return null
       dest = dest ? `${dest.replace(/^\/+|\/+$/g, '')}/` : ''
     }
     runAction(async () => {
@@ -607,40 +1036,312 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
         if (label === 'Delete') await fileActions.remove(p)
         else await fileActions.move(p, dest)
       }
-      setRowSelection(new Set())
+      if (label === 'Delete') setRowSelection(new Set())
+      else afterMove(paths, dest)
     })
     void verb
     return true
   }
 
+  /* THE DRAG CARRIES THE SELECTION (user 2026-09-23: "if 3 are selected, drag and drop still only
+   * grabs one"). Dragging a row that is IN the selection drags the whole set — which is what the
+   * right-click menu already did, and the two must not disagree about what "the targets" means.
+   * Dragging a row outside the selection is that row alone, as every file manager does. */
   const draggingRef = useRef(null)
   const dragFor = canWrite && fileActions.move ? (path) => ({
     path,
-    onDragStart: (e, from) => { draggingRef.current = from; e.dataTransfer.effectAllowed = 'move'; e.dataTransfer.setData('text/plain', from) },
+    onDragStart: (e, from) => {
+      const set = rowSelection.has(from) ? [...rowSelection] : [from]
+      draggingRef.current = set
+      e.dataTransfer.effectAllowed = 'move'
+      e.dataTransfer.setData('text/plain', set.join('\n'))
+    },
+    /* every dragged path has to be legal, or the drop would half-happen */
     canDrop: (dest) => {
-      const from = draggingRef.current
-      if (!from || from === dest) return false
-      if (from.endsWith('/') && dest.startsWith(from)) return false // into itself
-      const parent = from.replace(/\/$/, '').split('/').slice(0, -1).join('/')
-      return dest !== (parent ? `${parent}/` : '')                  // already there
+      const set = draggingRef.current
+      if (!set?.length) return false
+      /* ONLY A FOLDER TAKES A DROP. A file row is not a destination: moving `a.jpg` "into"
+       * `b.json` renamed it to `b.jsona.jpg`-shaped keys (the file-onto-file bug, 2026-09-22). */
+      if (dest && !dest.endsWith('/')) return false
+      return set.every((from) => {
+        if (from === dest) return false
+        if (from.endsWith('/') && dest.startsWith(from)) return false // into itself
+        const parent = from.replace(/\/$/, '').split('/').slice(0, -1).join('/')
+        return dest !== (parent ? `${parent}/` : '')                  // already there
+      })
     },
     onDrop: (dest) => {
-      const from = draggingRef.current
+      const set = draggingRef.current
       draggingRef.current = null
-      if (!from) return
-      const name = from.replace(/\/$/, '').split('/').pop()
-      runAction(() => fileActions.move(from, dest))
-      void name
+      if (!set?.length) return
+      runAction(async () => {
+        for (const from of set) await fileActions.move(from, dest)
+        afterMove(set, dest)
+      })
     },
   }) : null
 
-  const doDelete = (path, isFolder) => {
-    if (!confirm(`Delete ${isFolder ? `"${path}" and everything in it` : `"${path}"`}? This cannot be undone.`)) return
+  /* the OS-drop target for a bucket-relative folder path, or null where nothing may land */
+  const dropFilesTo = onDropFiles && writable ? (path) => (files) => onDropFiles(files, path) : null
+
+  /* UPLOAD FROM THE MENU (user 2026-09-22). The drop zone asked where files should go and never
+   * said; right-click names the folder. The picker is the browser's own and the files go through
+   * `onDropFiles`, the same seam a drag uses — the page still never uploads. */
+  const doUpload = (path) => {
+    const input = document.createElement('input')
+    input.type = 'file'
+    input.multiple = true
+    input.onchange = () => { if (input.files?.length) runAction(() => onDropFiles(input.files, path)) }
+    input.click()
+  }
+
+  /* The wall's two read verbs, in the tree's menu too (user 2026-09-22: "in right click dropdown we
+   * need copy url and download options, they are currently only availble in files mode"). Both are
+   * the client's URLs, so neither needs a write seam — they are offered wherever a FILE is. */
+  const doCopyUrl = (paths) => navigator.clipboard?.writeText(paths.map((p) => mediaUrl(p)).join('\n'))
+  const doDownload = (paths) => {
+    for (const p of paths) {
+      const a = document.createElement('a')
+      a.href = downloadUrl(p)
+      a.download = p.split('/').pop()
+      document.body.appendChild(a)
+      a.click()
+      a.remove()
+    }
+  }
+
+  const doDelete = async (path, isFolder) => {
+    if (!trash && !(await modal.confirm(`Delete ${isFolder ? `"${path}" and everything in it` : `"${path}"`}? This cannot be undone.`, { okLabel: 'Delete' }))) return
     runAction(() => fileActions.remove(path))
   }
+  /* stepping into a folder drops the pick — the preview would otherwise describe something no
+   * longer in the list */
+  const goFolder = (path) => { setPickedFile(null); setPickedFolder(null); setPrefix(path) }
+  /* SPACE IS QUICK LOOK IN EVERY VIEW (user 2026-09-23: *"spacebar preview only works in column,
+   * fix that. CONSISTENCY"*). `ColumnBrowser` has owned that key since it shipped, so the columns
+   * had it and the two views built later did not. The target is whatever is picked — the previewed
+   * file, or a selection of exactly one — and the set it pages through is the list you are looking
+   * at: the folder's files in rows, the wall's own list in grid. */
+  /* QUICK LOOK PAGES THROUGH THE SELECTION (user 2026-09-23: *"multiple files selected should
+   * show '1/2 <>' … because two files are highlighted"*). With more than one file selected the set
+   * is the selection, in list order, starting on the file asked for; otherwise it is the list the
+   * caller handed over. Every open goes through here so no view pages a different set. */
+  const openQuickLook = (q) => {
+    if (!q) { setQuickLook(null); return }
+    /* in the order on screen when the caller's list holds the whole selection, else bucket order */
+    const inView = q.files.filter((o) => rowSelection.has(o.key))
+    const sel = inView.length === rowSelection.size ? inView : objects.filter((o) => rowSelection.has(o.key))
+    const current = q.files[q.index]
+    if (sel.length > 1) {
+      const index = Math.max(0, sel.findIndex((o) => o.key === current?.key))
+      setQuickLook({ files: sel, index })
+      return
+    }
+    setQuickLook(q)
+  }
+  /* QUICK LOOK STEPS THE SELECTION TOO (user 2026-09-23: *"when quicklook preview is open on
+   * selected item and arrow right focuses new item, that item is being selected"*). Paging a folder,
+   * the file you land on becomes the selection and the pick — so closing the window leaves you on
+   * it. Paging a multi-selection, the set is what you are looking through and stays whole. */
+  /* closing hands focus to the SELECTION, not back to the tile that opened the window — after
+   * stepping they are different tiles, and the overlay's own focus-return would light the old one */
+  const closeQuickLook = () => {
+    setQuickLook(null)
+    requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+      const key = selectAnchorRef.current
+      const el = key && document.querySelector(`[data-marquee-key="${CSS.escape(key)}"]`)
+      if (el?.tabIndex >= 0) el.focus({ preventScroll: true })
+    })
+  }
+  const stepQuickLook = (dir) => {
+    if (!quickLook) return
+    const { files } = quickLook
+    const index = (quickLook.index + dir + files.length) % files.length
+    setQuickLook({ ...quickLook, index })
+    const o = files[index]
+    if (o && rowSelection.size <= 1) {
+      setRowSelection(new Set([o.key])); selectAnchorRef.current = o.key
+      setPickedFolder(null); setPickedFile(o)
+    }
+  }
+  const spaceQuickLook = () => {
+    const key = pickedFile?.key ?? pickedFolder ?? (rowSelection.size === 1 ? [...rowSelection][0] : null)
+    if (!key) return
+    /* A FOLDER QUICK-LOOKS TOO (user 2026-09-23: *"anything can be quick viewed, also folders"*) —
+     * the same pane the preview column draws, at overlay size. */
+    if (key.endsWith('/')) { setQuickLookFolder(key); return }
+    const files = isWall
+      ? wallFiles
+      : rowLevel(key.slice(0, key.lastIndexOf('/') + 1), sortedObjects).files
+    const index = files.findIndex((f) => f.key === key)
+    if (index === -1) return
+    openQuickLook({ files, index })
+  }
+
+  /* SEARCH IS THE DS'S OWN PALETTE (2026-09-22). `/` is the file-manager habit and ⌘K the app one,
+   * so both open it; it searches the bucket's keys and JUMPS — it does not filter the list under
+   * you, which is what the filter bar is for. */
+  const [searchOpen, setSearchOpen] = useState(false)
+  const [searchQuery, setSearchQuery] = useState('')
+  /* THE ARROWS IN THE GRID AND THE ROWS (user 2026-09-23: *"arrow navigation doesnt work in grid
+   * mode? nor in row mode"*). The columns have always had theirs (`ColumnBrowser`); these are the
+   * same keys for the other two views, and every one is listed in the shortcuts sheet.
+   *   grid   ←→ one tile, ↑↓ one row of tiles (the grid's live column count)
+   *   rows   ↑↓ the visible order · → expands a folder, again steps into it · ← collapses, or goes
+   *          to the parent folder
+   *   both   ⌘↑ the enclosing folder · ⌘↓ opens (a folder in the rows, Quick Look on a file) */
+  const gridOrderRef = useRef([])
+  const arrowNav = (e) => {
+    if (!['ArrowUp', 'ArrowDown', 'ArrowLeft', 'ArrowRight'].includes(e.key)) return false
+    if (view === 'columns' || quickLook || quickLookFolder || searchOpen) return false
+    const cur = selectCursorRef.current ?? selectAnchorRef.current ?? [...rowSelection].pop() ?? null
+    /* ⇧ + ARROW EXTENDS (user 2026-09-23: *"shift up down or left right … should also make
+     * selection"*): the anchor stays where the run began, the cursor moves, and the selection is
+     * everything between them in the order on screen. */
+    const extend = (order, key) => {
+      const anchor = selectAnchorRef.current ?? cur ?? key
+      const a = order.indexOf(anchor)
+      const b = order.indexOf(key)
+      if (a === -1 || b === -1) return false
+      setRowSelection(new Set(order.slice(Math.min(a, b), Math.max(a, b) + 1)))
+      selectAnchorRef.current = anchor
+      selectCursorRef.current = key
+      return true
+    }
+    /* FOCUS FOLLOWS THE SELECTION (user 2026-09-23: *"why are we supporting multiple selected/highlight
+     * states?"*). The clicked tile kept keyboard focus — and its focus ring — while the arrows moved
+     * the selection on, so two tiles looked current. The one the arrows land on takes focus too. */
+    const reveal = (box, key) => {
+      const el = box?.querySelector(`[data-marquee-key="${CSS.escape(key)}"]`)
+      el?.scrollIntoView({ block: 'nearest' })
+      if (el?.tabIndex >= 0) el.focus({ preventScroll: true })
+    }
+    if (view === 'grid') {
+      const list = gridOrderRef.current
+      if (!list.length) return true
+      if (e.metaKey && e.key === 'ArrowUp') { if (prefix) goFolder(dirOf(prefix)); return true }
+      const i = list.findIndex((f) => f.key === cur)
+      if (e.metaKey && e.key === 'ArrowDown') { if (i !== -1) openQuickLook({ files: list, index: i }); return true }
+      const box = gridMarquee.ref.current
+      const cols = box ? getComputedStyle(box).gridTemplateColumns.split(' ').filter(Boolean).length : 1
+      const step = { ArrowLeft: -1, ArrowRight: 1, ArrowUp: -cols, ArrowDown: cols }[e.key]
+      const o = list[i === -1 ? 0 : Math.max(0, Math.min(list.length - 1, i + step))]
+      if (e.shiftKey && extend(list.map((f) => f.key), o.key)) { reveal(box, o.key); return true }
+      setRowSelection(new Set([o.key])); selectAnchorRef.current = o.key; selectCursorRef.current = null
+      setPickedFolder(null); setPickedFile(o)
+      reveal(box, o.key)
+      return true
+    }
+    if (view === 'rows') {
+      const order = visibleRowOrder(sortedObjects)
+      if (!order.length) return true
+      const select = (key) => {
+        setRowSelection(new Set([key])); selectAnchorRef.current = key; selectCursorRef.current = null
+        if (key.endsWith('/')) rowPickFolder(key)
+        else { const o = objects.find((x) => x.key === key); if (o) rowPickFile(o) }
+        reveal(rowsMarquee.ref.current, key)
+      }
+      const isFolder = cur?.endsWith('/')
+      const open = isFolder && rowsExpanded.has(cur)
+      if (e.metaKey && e.key === 'ArrowUp') { const up = cur ? dirOf(cur) : dirOf(prefix); if (up) select(up); return true }
+      if (e.metaKey && e.key === 'ArrowDown') {
+        if (!cur) return true
+        if (isFolder) goFolder(cur)
+        else { const lvl = rowLevel(dirOf(cur), sortedObjects).files; openQuickLook({ files: lvl, index: Math.max(0, lvl.findIndex((f) => f.key === cur)) }) }
+        return true
+      }
+      const i = order.indexOf(cur)
+      if (e.key === 'ArrowDown' || e.key === 'ArrowUp') {
+        const next = order[i === -1 ? 0 : Math.max(0, Math.min(order.length - 1, i + (e.key === 'ArrowDown' ? 1 : -1)))]
+        if (e.shiftKey && extend(order, next)) { reveal(rowsMarquee.ref.current, next); return true }
+        select(next); return true
+      }
+      if (e.key === 'ArrowRight' && isFolder) {
+        if (!open) setExpandedRows((prev) => new Set([...prev, cur]))
+        else if (order[i + 1]?.startsWith(cur)) select(order[i + 1])
+        return true
+      }
+      if (e.key === 'ArrowLeft' && cur) {
+        if (open) toggleRow(cur)
+        else if (dirOf(cur)) select(dirOf(cur))
+        return true
+      }
+      return true
+    }
+    return false
+  }
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const onKey = (e) => {
+      const el = e.target
+      if (el?.isContentEditable || /^(INPUT|TEXTAREA|SELECT)$/.test(el?.tagName ?? '')) return
+      if (e.key === '/' && !e.metaKey && !e.ctrlKey) { e.preventDefault(); setSearchOpen(true) }
+      if (e.key === 'k' && (e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey)) { e.preventDefault(); setSearchOpen(true) }
+      if (arrowNav(e)) { e.preventDefault(); return }
+      /* the columns keep their own space handler — theirs knows the column's cursor */
+      if (e.key === ' ' && view !== 'columns' && !searchOpen) {
+        e.preventDefault()
+        if (quickLook) closeQuickLook()
+        else if (quickLookFolder) setQuickLookFolder(null)
+        else spaceQuickLook()
+      }
+    }
+    window.addEventListener('keydown', onKey)
+    return () => window.removeEventListener('keydown', onKey)
+  })
+
   const [quickLook, setQuickLook] = useState(null)
+  const [quickLookFolder, setQuickLookFolder] = useState(null)
   const columnsRef = useRef(null)
-  const { folderView = 'columns', flat } = settings
+  /* `flat` IS THE WALL'S, NOT THIS PAGE'S (user 2026-09-22: "there is no option to switch to flat
+   * mode, bc its not in files view. this is row mode.. this makes no sense"). It reached here from
+   * kol-r2b2's single surface and did two things that cannot be defended in a TREE: it struck every
+   * folder name through, and it counted the whole subtree in the level's own count line — with the
+   * only control on the other view's filter bar. A tree browses folders; flat browses files. */
+  /* `view` IS THE STATE; `folderView` is what it used to be called for the two tree views and is
+   * kept in step so an older consumer (kol-r2b2, kol-olina) is unaffected. */
+  const stored = viewProp ?? settings.view ?? (settings.folderView === 'rows' ? 'rows' : 'columns')
+  const view = stored === 'list' ? 'rows' : stored
+  const isWall = view === 'grid'
+  const folderView = view === 'rows' ? 'rows' : 'columns'
+  const setView = (v) => {
+    onViewChange?.(v)
+    setSettings({
+      ...settings,
+      view: v,
+      folderView: v === 'rows' ? 'rows' : v === 'columns' ? 'columns' : settings.folderView,
+      layout: v === 'grid' ? 'grid' : settings.layout,
+    })
+  }
+  /* ROW VIEW'S PREVIEW PANE. Reserved whenever the setting is on, empty until something is picked
+   * — Finder keeps the space rather than reflowing the list on every selection. */
+  const showRowPreview = folderView === 'rows' && (settings.rowPreview ?? true)
+  const showGridPreview = view === 'grid' && (settings.rowPreview ?? true)
+  /* OFF by default: a row is a name, and the facts live in the preview (user 2026-09-22) */
+  const rowCols = settings.rowColumns ? rowColWidths(settings) : null
+  const previewWidth = settings.columnWidths?.preview ?? 320
+  const previewFile = pickedFile && pickedFile.key.startsWith(prefix) ? pickedFile : null
+  const previewFolder = pickedFolder && pickedFolder.startsWith(prefix) ? pickedFolder : null
+  /* THE PREVIEW PANE, ONE FUNCTION FOR THE ROWS AND THE GRID (user 2026-09-23: *"why did you not
+   * treat this like column and row, with container padding + preview pane? CONSISTENCY"*). Several
+   * selected → the stack; a file → its preview; a folder → its summary; nothing → the reserved
+   * space, which Finder keeps rather than reflowing the list on every pick. */
+  const previewPane = () => (
+    rowSelection.size > 1 ? (
+      <SelectionPreview keys={[...rowSelection]} objects={objects} urlOf={(o) => mediaUrl(o.key)} kindOf={kindOf} formatSize={formatSize} formatDate={formatDate} width={previewWidth} />
+    ) : previewFile ? (
+      <ColumnPreview key={previewFile.key} o={previewFile} urlOf={(o) => mediaUrl(o.key)} kindOf={kindOf} kindLabel={KIND_LABEL}
+        formatSize={formatSize} formatDate={formatDate} width={previewWidth}
+        renderPreview={(o) => {
+          if (isImage(o.contentType)) return <ImageFrame src={mediaUrl(o.key)} />
+          const poster = posterFor(o.key, keySet)
+          return <KindPreview o={o} urlOf={(x) => mediaUrl(x.key)} poster={poster ? mediaUrl(poster) : undefined} kindOf={kindOf} kindLabel={KIND_LABEL} />
+        }} />
+    ) : previewFolder ? (
+      <FolderPreview key={previewFolder} path={previewFolder} objects={objects} width={previewWidth} formatDate={formatDate} />
+    ) : (
+      <div className="kol-column-browser-preview shrink-0" style={{ width: previewWidth }} />
+    )
+  )
   /* PINNED SEARCH + `···` (item 15), below `md` only. Item 7 of the previous
    * ticket hid the desktop control cluster and put nothing in its place, so
    * SORT became unreachable on a phone; both references carry exactly these two
@@ -653,7 +1354,12 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
    * rest. One view, rather than a flat results list nobody asked for. Sort
    * orders the files the way the wall already sorts its own. */
   const q = query.trim().toLowerCase()
-  const searched = useMemo(() => (q ? objects.filter((o) => o.key.toLowerCase().includes(q)) : objects), [objects, q])
+  /* SEGMENTS HIDE WHEN FOLDED, in every view (user 2026-09-23: *"we can just by default hide the
+   * segments, if they serve no practical purpose"*). A `.ts` chunk cannot play on its own — its
+   * stream's `.m3u8` beside it is the thing you open. The fold used to reach only the grid, so the
+   * columns and rows listed every chunk. */
+  const listed = useMemo(() => (settings.foldSegments ? objects.filter((o) => !isSegment(o.key)) : objects), [objects, settings.foldSegments])
+  const searched = useMemo(() => (q ? listed.filter((o) => o.key.toLowerCase().includes(q)) : listed), [listed, q])
   const sortedObjects = useMemo(
     () => sortObjects(searched, settings.sortBy, settings.sortDir),
     [searched, settings.sortBy, settings.sortDir],
@@ -671,7 +1377,7 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
    * merged set now, so the tally is taken from the same place. */
   const folders = [...new Set([...treeFolders(prefix), ...keyFolders])].sort()
   const keySet = new Set(objects.map((o) => o.key))
-  const levelFiles = flat ? scoped.map((o) => ({ ...o, displayKey: prefix ? o.key.slice(prefix.length) : o.key })) : dirFiles
+  const levelFiles = dirFiles
   const systemCount = levelFiles.filter((o) => isSystemFile(o.key)).length
   const rawFiles = levelFiles.filter((o) => !isSystemFile(o.key)).map((o) => ({ ...o, kind: kindOf(o) }))
   const profile = profileOf(objects, rawFiles, systemCount)
@@ -699,11 +1405,11 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
    * columns about what a folder even is. This is that merge, lifted so both callers share it —
    * folders from `folderTree` (real nodes, empty ones included) unioned with the ones derived from
    * keys, plus the level's own files, which the row view never rendered at all. */
-  const rowLevel = (level) => {
+  const rowLevel = (level, list = objects) => {
     /* `partition` slices every key by `prefix` WITHOUT checking it matches, so it must be handed an
      * already-scoped list. Given the whole bucket it cut four characters off every root key and
      * drew `readme.md` as `me.md` and `video/` as `o/`. Scope first, always. */
-    const inLevel = level ? objects.filter((o) => o.key.startsWith(level)) : objects
+    const inLevel = level ? list.filter((o) => o.key.startsWith(level)) : list
     const live = partition(inLevel, level)
     const baked = treeFolders(level)
     return {
@@ -721,11 +1427,277 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
   }, [folderView, prefix, appRoot, pickedFile, bucketMeta.id])
 
   if (error) return <p className="kol-mono-12 text-ui-error">Error: {error}</p>
+  /* NOT SELECTABLE (user 2026-09-23, superseding 2026-09-22's selectable crumbs: *"instead of this
+   * highlight, could we make a hover click to copy path?"*). A drag across the line painted the
+   * browser's selection block over it; the path is one click on the current crumb now. */
   const crumbCls = (active) => `cursor-pointer select-none transition-colors ${active ? 'text-oq-96' : 'text-oq-48 hover:text-oq-64'}`
+  const fullPath = (tail = '') => [ROOT, ...(appRoot ? [] : [label, ...crumbs]), ...(tail ? [tail] : [])].join('/')
+
+  /* ── THE WALL'S LIST, on the same surface (2026-09-22) ──────────────────────────────────────
+   * `flat` belongs to the FILE views and not to the tree (that ruling stands): a wall shows the
+   * folder's own files, or the whole subtree when flat is on. Grouping and segment-folding are the
+   * settings the wall always had. */
+  const wallKinds = new Set(settings.kinds ?? SETTINGS_BASE.kinds)
+  const wallSource = settings.flat
+    ? scoped.map((o) => ({ ...o, displayKey: prefix ? o.key.slice(prefix.length) : o.key }))
+    : dirFiles
+  const wallVisible = wallKinds.has('system') ? wallSource : wallSource.filter((o) => !isSystemFile(o.key))
+  const wallGrouped = settings.groupVariants ? groupVariants(wallVisible) : wallVisible
+  const wallFiles = (settings.foldSegments ? groupSegments(wallGrouped) : wallGrouped)
+    .map((o) => ({ ...o, kind: kindOf(o), poster: posterFor(o.key, keySet) }))
+  const filtersOn = !!settings.filters
+  /* the bar filters FILES, and a tree is drawn from the files under it — so one filtered list
+   * serves both: the wall renders it, the tree is scoped to the keys in it */
+  const filterItems = isWall ? wallFiles : scoped.filter((o) => !isSystemFile(o.key)).map((o) => ({ ...o, kind: kindOf(o), displayKey: prefix ? o.key.slice(prefix.length) : o.key }))
+  const filterKinds = [...new Set(filterItems.map((o) => o.kind))].sort()
+
+  /* ── THE BODY, one of four (2026-09-22) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+   * `treeBody` draws the columns or the rows over whatever object list it is handed — the whole
+   * key space, or the subset the filter bar left standing. `wallPane` is the same two file views
+   * the Files page rendered, in a pane of the browser's own height so the page does not jump
+   * between views. */
+  const treeBody = (keep) => {
+    const treeObjects = keep ? sortedObjects.filter((o) => keep.has(o.key)) : sortedObjects
+    return (
+  folderView === 'columns' ? (
+            <div ref={columnsRef} className="relative">
+              <ColumnBrowser
+                autoFocus={autoFocus}
+                className={appRoot ? 'is-root' : ''}
+                height={settings.columnHeight}
+                onHeightChange={(px) => setSettings({ ...settings, columnHeight: px })}
+                columnWidths={settings.columnWidths}
+                onColumnResize={(i, px) => setSettings({ ...settings, columnWidths: { ...(settings.columnWidths ?? {}), [i]: px } })}
+                objects={treeObjects.filter((o) => !isSystemFile(o.key)).map((o) => ({ ...o, key: `${VROOT}${o.key}` }))}
+                prefix={single ? prefix : (appRoot ? `${ROOT}/` : `${VROOT}${prefix}`)}
+                onPrefix={(v) => {
+                  /* single: the browser's path IS the bucket path, no segment to strip */
+                  if (single) { setAppRoot(false); setPrefix(v); return }
+                  const [, seg, ...rest] = v.split('/')
+                  const target = buckets.find((b) => b.label === seg)
+                  if (!target && buckets.length) { setAppRoot(true); setPickedFile(null); setPrefix(''); return }
+                  setAppRoot(false)
+                  const real = rest.join('/')
+                  if (target && target.id !== bucketMeta.id) switchBucket(target.id, real); else setPrefix(real)
+                }}
+                onPick={(o) => setPickedFile(o ? { ...o, key: o.key.slice(VROOT.length) } : null)}
+                quickLook={quickLook && { ...quickLook, files: quickLook.files.map((o) => ({ ...o, key: `${VROOT}${o.key}` })) }}
+                onQuickLook={(q) => openQuickLook(q && { ...q, files: q.files.map((o) => ({ ...o, key: o.key.slice(VROOT.length) })) })}
+                urlOf={(o) => mediaUrl(o.key.slice(VROOT.length))}
+                kindOf={kindOf}
+                kindLabel={KIND_LABEL}
+                formatSize={formatSize}
+                formatDate={formatDate}
+                thumbnailFor={thumbnailFor}
+                folderMeta={folderMeta}
+                /* the PROP wins when a consumer passes one; otherwise the `···`
+                   owns it through settings (item 15) */
+                stackView={stackView ?? settings.stackView ?? 'list'}
+                renderPreview={(o) => {
+                  const real = { ...o, key: o.key.slice(VROOT.length) }
+                  if (isImage(real.contentType)) return <ImageFrame src={mediaUrl(real.key)} />
+                  const poster = posterFor(real.key, keySet)
+                  return <KindPreview o={real} urlOf={(x) => mediaUrl(x.key)} poster={poster ? mediaUrl(poster) : undefined} kindOf={kindOf} kindLabel={KIND_LABEL} />
+                }}
+                /* THE COLUMNS SPEAK IN VIRTUAL PATHS. With more than one bucket every level is
+                  * prefixed `<title>/<bucket>/` so the stores share one tree — so a path coming OUT
+                  * of the browser must be un-rooted before it reaches a file verb, or the store is
+                  * asked to move `MEDIA/R2 · kol-media/img/x.jpg`, which it has never heard of. The
+                  * row view needs none of this; it is already bucket-relative. */
+                onRowContextMenu={(e, payload) => menu.openAt(e, { ...payload, path: unroot(payload.path), ...(payload.o && { o: { ...payload.o, key: unroot(payload.o.key) } }) })}
+                dragFor={dragFor ? (path) => dragFor(unroot(path)) : undefined}
+                /* virtual paths again: only a level inside THIS bucket's root can take a file */
+                onDropFiles={dropFilesTo ? (files, path) => { if (!VROOT || path.startsWith(VROOT)) dropFilesTo(unroot(path))(files) } : undefined}
+                /* the band's keys come back virtual-rooted; the page keeps ONE selection, bucket-relative */
+                selectedKeys={VROOT ? new Set([...rowSelection].map((k) => `${VROOT}${k}`)) : rowSelection}
+                onSelectKeys={(keys, additive) => { marqueeSelect(keys.map(unroot), additive); if (!additive && keys.length === 1) selectAnchorRef.current = unroot(keys[0]) }}
+                onSelectClick={(key, e, keys) => selectRow(unroot(key), e, keys.map(unroot))}
+                /* the bucket rows under the title are SOURCES — `database`, not `folder` */
+                folderIcon={(path) => (!single && path.startsWith(`${ROOT}/`) && path.slice(ROOT.length + 1).split('/').filter(Boolean).length === 1 ? 'database' : 'folder')}
+                partition={(objs, level) => {
+                  if (!single) {
+                    if (level === '') return { folders: [`${ROOT}/`], files: [] }
+                    if (level === `${ROOT}/`) return { folders: (buckets.length ? buckets : [bucketMeta]).map((b) => `${b.label || 'bucket'}/`), files: [] }
+                  }
+                  const live = partition(objs, level)
+                  const baked = treeFolders(level.slice(VROOT.length))
+                  return { folders: [...new Set([...baked, ...live.folders])].sort(), files: live.files }
+                }}
+              />
+            </div>
+          ) : (
+            /* ROW VIEW — the same level the column view draws, not a different one. It used to render
+             * `partition(scoped, prefix).folders` and nothing else, which lost two things: an EMPTY
+             * folder (partition derives folders from file keys, so a folder with no files under it
+             * does not exist to it — `folderTree` is where real nodes live, and the column view was
+             * already merging the two) and every FILE at the level. `#img/` drew 2 rows against the
+             * columns' 4. Folders first, then files, each expandable in place like a list view. */
+            /* SAME AREA AS THE COLUMNS. The row view used to be content-height, so the two folder
+             * views made the page jump between them and the blank space below the last row — where
+             * you right-click for "new folder" and drop to file something here — did not exist. It
+             * takes the column browser's own height now, from the same setting.
+             *
+             * The list IS the current folder, so it is a drop target for `prefix`, matching a column
+             * being a target for its level. Highlight via a data attribute for the same reason.
+             *
+             * THE COLUMN BROWSER'S PANE (user 2026-09-22): same border, radius and height, the list a
+             * `kol-column-browser-column` (its 4px block inset, its selected rules), and beside it the
+             * same preview the columns open — Finder's "Show preview", on by default (`rowPreview`). */
+            /* THE WRAPPER OWNS THE HEIGHT, not the pane (2026-09-22). Both folder views have to end on
+             * the same line — the count line under them jumps otherwise, and a consumer's fill height
+             * is ONE value for both — so the header comes out of this view's budget rather than being
+             * added to it. The pane takes what is left. */
+            <div className="flex flex-col gap-2" style={{ height: settings.columnHeight ?? SETTINGS_BASE.columnHeight }}>
+            {/* the header labels the LIST, so it spans the list and stops where the preview starts */}
+            {rowCols && (
+              <RowHeader sortBy={settings.sortBy} sortDir={settings.sortDir} width={showRowPreview ? `calc(100% - ${previewWidth}px)` : '100%'}
+                cols={rowCols}
+                onResize={(key, px) => setSettings({ ...settings, rowColumnWidths: { ...rowColWidths(settings), [key]: px } })}
+                onSort={(sortBy, sortDir) => setSettings({ ...settings, sortBy, sortDir })} />
+            )}
+            <div className="relative border rounded flex overflow-hidden flex-1 min-h-0"
+              style={{ borderColor: 'var(--kol-oq-08)' }}>
+            <div className={`flex-1 min-w-0 flex flex-col${showRowPreview ? ' border-r' : ''}`} style={{ borderColor: 'var(--kol-oq-08)' }}>
+            <ul ref={rowsMarquee.ref} {...rowsMarquee.props}
+            /* the background deselects, here as in the columns */
+            onClick={(e) => { if (!e.target.closest('[data-marquee-key]')) { setRowSelection(new Set()); setPickedFile(null); setPickedFolder(null) } }}
+            className="relative kol-column-browser-column kol-row-browser flex-1 min-w-0 flex flex-col overflow-y-auto"
+              onContextMenu={(e) => menu.openAt(e, { type: 'level', path: prefix })}
+              onDragOver={(e) => {
+                const files = dropFilesTo && isFileDrag(e)
+                const d = !isFileDrag(e) && dragFor?.(prefix)
+                if (!files && !d?.canDrop(prefix)) return
+                e.preventDefault()
+                e.currentTarget.dataset.dropOver = '1'
+              }}
+              /* THE HIGHLIGHT CLEARS HOWEVER THE DRAG ENDS (user 2026-09-22 — it stuck as a border).
+               * A drop on a folder row stops propagation, so this list's own onDrop never ran; the
+               * capture phase runs first. Leaving through a child fires on the child, so leave is
+               * "the pointer is no longer inside", not "the event target was the list". */
+              onDragLeave={(e) => { if (!e.currentTarget.contains(e.relatedTarget)) delete e.currentTarget.dataset.dropOver }}
+              onDropCapture={(e) => { delete e.currentTarget.dataset.dropOver }}
+              onDrop={(e) => {
+                if (dropFilesTo && isFileDrag(e)) { e.preventDefault(); dropFilesTo(prefix)(e.dataTransfer.files); return }
+                const d = !isFileDrag(e) && dragFor?.(prefix)
+                if (!d?.canDrop(prefix)) return
+                e.preventDefault()
+                d.onDrop(prefix)
+              }}>
+              {rowsMarquee.rect && <div className="kol-marquee" style={rowsMarquee.rect} />}
+            {rowLevel('', treeObjects).folders.map((f) => {
+                const path = f
+                const open = rowsExpanded.has(path)
+                const order = visibleRowOrder(treeObjects)
+                return (
+                  <Fragment key={f}>
+                    <FolderRow
+                      name={f} expanded={open}
+                      markKey={path}
+                      /* THE FOLDER YOU ARE IN IS NOT A SELECTION (user 2026-09-23) — it wears the trail
+                       * mark, the columns' parent-folder tone, never the selected fill */
+                      selected={rowSelection.has(path) || pickedFolder === path}
+                      current={prefix === path}
+                      onContextMenu={(e) => menu.openAt(e, { type: 'folder', path, targets: targetsFor(path) })}
+                      drag={dragFor?.(path)}
+                      dropFiles={dropFilesTo?.(path)}
+                      meta={folderMeta?.(path) || undefined}
+                      cols={rowCols}
+                      onToggle={() => toggleRow(path)}
+                      onClick={(e) => { if (!selectRow(path, e, order)) rowPickFolder(path) }}
+                      onDoubleClick={() => goFolder(path)}
+                    />
+                    {open && <RowSubtree
+                      level={path} depth={1} rowLevel={(lvl) => rowLevel(lvl, treeObjects)} expanded={rowsExpanded}
+                      onToggle={toggleRow}
+                      onOpenFolder={goFolder} onPickFolder={rowPickFolder} onPickFile={rowPickFile}
+                      onOpenFile={(o) => { const lvl = rowLevel(o.key.slice(0, o.key.lastIndexOf('/') + 1), treeObjects).files; openQuickLook({ files: lvl, index: Math.max(0, lvl.findIndex((f) => f.key === o.key)) }) }}
+                      selectRow={selectRow} order={order} selectedKeys={rowSelection}
+                      onRowContextMenu={(e, payload) => menu.openAt(e, payload)} dragFor={dragFor} dropFilesTo={dropFilesTo}
+                      formatDate={formatDate} folderMeta={folderMeta} thumbnailFor={thumbnailFor} cols={rowCols}
+                      pickedKey={pickedFolder ?? pickedFile?.key ?? null} currentKey={prefix}
+                    />}
+                  </Fragment>
+                )
+              })}
+              {rowLevel('', treeObjects).files.map((o) => (
+                <FileRow key={o.key} o={o} formatDate={formatDate} thumb={thumbnailFor?.(o)} cols={rowCols}
+                  selected={rowSelection.has(o.key) || pickedFile?.key === o.key}
+                  onDoubleClick={() => { const lvl = rowLevel('', treeObjects).files; openQuickLook({ files: lvl, index: Math.max(0, lvl.findIndex((f) => f.key === o.key)) }) }}
+                  onContextMenu={(e) => menu.openAt(e, { type: 'file', path: o.key, o, targets: targetsFor(o.key) })}
+                  drag={dragFor?.(o.key)}
+                  onClick={(e) => {
+                    if (!selectRow(o.key, e, visibleRowOrder(treeObjects))) rowPickFile(o)
+                  }} />
+              ))}
+            </ul>
+            </div>
+            {showRowPreview && previewPane()}
+            </div>
+            </div>
+          )
+    )
+  }
+
+  /* THE GRID IS THE THIRD VIEW OF ONE SURFACE (user 2026-09-23, reversing the same day's "no pane,
+   * no fill height" for the wall: *"why did you not treat this like column and row, with container
+   * padding + preview pane? CONSISTENCY"*). Same bordered frame, same fill height, the tiles scroll
+   * inside it, the same preview pane beside them, the same count line under it — with the size
+   * slider at its right end, Finder's. */
+  const tileSize = settings.tileSize ?? 180
+  const wallPane = (files) => (
+    <div className="flex flex-col gap-2" style={{ height: settings.columnHeight ?? SETTINGS_BASE.columnHeight }}>
+    <div className="relative border rounded flex overflow-hidden flex-1 min-h-0" style={{ borderColor: 'var(--kol-oq-08)' }}>
+    <div className={`flex-1 min-w-0 overflow-y-auto p-4${showGridPreview ? ' border-r' : ''}`} style={{ borderColor: 'var(--kol-oq-08)' }}
+      onClick={(e) => { if (!e.target.closest('[data-marquee-key]')) { setRowSelection(new Set()); setPickedFile(null); setPickedFolder(null) } }}>
+    <WallBody files={files} layout="grid" tiles="media" cardMin={tileSize} marquee={gridMarquee} onSorted={(list) => { gridOrderRef.current = list }}
+      onBackgroundClick={() => { setRowSelection(new Set()); setPickedFile(null); setPickedFolder(null) }}
+      sortBy={settings.sortBy} sortDir={settings.sortDir}
+      pageSize={settings.pageSize} listId={`${prefix}|${view}|${settings.flat}|${refreshKey}|${bucketMeta.id}`}
+      mediaUrl={mediaUrl} downloadUrl={downloadUrl} keySet={keySet} videoPreview={settings.videoPreview} formatDate={formatDate}
+      selected={rowSelection} onPick={(o, e, keys) => {
+        /* ⇧/⌘ ADD TO THE SELECTION HERE TOO (user 2026-09-23) — the same `selectRow` the rows use;
+         * a plain click is still a selection of one and still previews */
+        if (selectRow(o.key, e, keys)) return
+        setPickedFolder(null); setPickedFile(o)
+      }}
+      onOpen={(o, files) => openQuickLook({ files, index: Math.max(0, files.findIndex((f) => f.key === o.key)) })}
+      /* COPY AND DOWNLOAD LIVE IN THE MENU AND QUICK LOOK (user 2026-09-23) — as in the rows and the
+       * columns. The tile carries no buttons. */
+      onContextMenu={(e, o) => menu.openAt(e, { type: 'file', path: o.key, o, targets: targetsFor(o.key) })} />
+    </div>
+    {showGridPreview && previewPane()}
+    </div>
+    </div>
+  )
+
+  /* The palette's own ruling (2026-08-01) is that Enter COMMITS the query rather than navigating
+   * to whatever happened to be first — so `onExpand` is where a committed query lands, and here
+   * that means the top hit. Arrow-then-Enter and a click go through `onSelect`, same jump. */
+  const searchResults = (searchQuery.trim()
+    ? objects.filter((o) => o.key.toLowerCase().includes(searchQuery.trim().toLowerCase()))
+    : objects
+  ).slice(0, 50).map((o) => ({
+    id: o.key,
+    label: o.key.split('/').pop(),
+    hint: o.key.slice(0, o.key.lastIndexOf('/') + 1) || 'the bucket root',
+    group: KIND_LABEL[kindOf(o)] || 'File',
+  }))
+  const jumpTo = (key) => {
+    const o = objects.find((x) => x.key === key)
+    setSearchOpen(false); setSearchQuery('')
+    if (!o) return
+    setAppRoot(false)
+    setPrefix(o.key.slice(0, o.key.lastIndexOf('/') + 1))
+    pickFile(o)
+  }
+
+  const body = (filtered) => (isWall
+    ? wallPane(filtered ?? wallFiles)
+    : treeBody(filtered ? new Set(filtered.map((f) => f.key)) : null))
 
   return (
     <div className={`flex flex-col gap-6 ${className}`.trim()}>
-      <LibraryHeader title={title} buckets={buckets} bucketId={bucketMeta.id} appRoot={appRoot} bucketMeta={bucketMeta} writable={writable} headerActions={headerActions} headerTrailing={headerTrailing}
+      <LibraryHeader title={title} buckets={buckets} bucketId={bucketMeta.id} appRoot={appRoot} bucketMeta={bucketMeta} writable={writable} headerActions={headerActions} headerTrailing={headerTrailing} onTrash={trash ? () => setTrashOpen(true) : undefined}
         onHome={() => { setAppRoot(true); setPickedFile(null); setPrefix('') }}
         onBucket={(v) => { if (v === 'all') { setAppRoot(true); setPrefix('') } else { setAppRoot(false); switchBucket(v) } }}
         onSettings={() => setSettingsOpen(true)} />
@@ -773,38 +1745,47 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
             <button className={crumbCls(appRoot)} onClick={() => { setAppRoot(true); setPickedFile(null); setPrefix('') }}>{ROOT}</button>
             {!appRoot && bucketMeta.id && (
               <span className="flex items-center gap-2">
-                <span className="text-oq-32">/</span>
-                <button className={crumbCls(crumbs.length === 0 && !(folderView === 'columns' && pickedFile))} onClick={() => setPrefix('')}>{label.toUpperCase()}</button>
+                <span className="text-oq-32 select-none">/</span>
+                {crumbs.length === 0 && !(folderView === 'columns' && pickedFile)
+                  ? <CopyCrumb className={crumbCls(true)} label={label.toUpperCase()} path={fullPath()} />
+                  : <button className={crumbCls(false)} onClick={() => setPrefix('')}>{label.toUpperCase()}</button>}
               </span>
             )}
             {!appRoot && crumbs.map((seg, i) => {
               const to = crumbs.slice(0, i + 1).join('/') + '/'
               const last = i === crumbs.length - 1
+              const current = last && !(folderView === 'columns' && pickedFile)
               return (
                 <span key={to} className="flex items-center gap-2">
-                  <span className="text-oq-32">/</span>
-                  <button className={crumbCls(last && !(folderView === 'columns' && pickedFile))} onClick={() => setPrefix(to)}>{seg.toUpperCase()}</button>
+                  <span className="text-oq-32 select-none">/</span>
+                  {current
+                    ? <CopyCrumb className={crumbCls(true)} label={seg.toUpperCase()} path={fullPath()} />
+                    : <button className={crumbCls(false)} onClick={() => setPrefix(to)}>{seg.toUpperCase()}</button>}
                 </span>
               )
             })}
             {folderView === 'columns' && pickedFile && pickedFile.key.startsWith(prefix) && (
-              <span className="flex items-center gap-2"><span className="text-oq-32">/</span><span className="text-oq-96">{pickedFile.key.slice(prefix.length).toUpperCase()}</span></span>
+              <span className="flex items-center gap-2"><span className="text-oq-32 select-none">/</span>
+                <CopyCrumb className={crumbCls(true)} label={pickedFile.key.slice(prefix.length).toUpperCase()} path={fullPath(pickedFile.key.slice(prefix.length))} />
+              </span>
             )}
           </div>
-          {/* the control cluster is desktop-only — below `md` these two toggles
-            * are the same setting the drawer already carries, and nothing in
-            * this row survives 390 */}
-          <div className="hidden md:flex items-center gap-6">
-            <ViewToggle viewMode={folderView} onViewChange={(v) => setSettings({ ...settings, folderView: v })} variant="icon" options={FOLDER_VIEW_OPTIONS} />
+          {/* the control cluster is desktop-only — below `md` this is the same
+            * setting the drawer already carries, and nothing in this row survives 390.
+            *
+            * ONE SWITCH FOR FOUR VIEWS (the merge, 2026-09-22). Two views were a pair of words;
+            * four are an icon strip — the same reason Finder draws four glyphs and no labels.
+            * Beside it: the filter bar's funnel and search, which belong to every view now. */}
+          <div className="hidden md:flex items-center gap-4">
+            {/* FILTER AND SEARCH, ONE WELL (user 2026-09-23): the same chip and height as the view
+              * switch beside them — the bare filter frame sat shorter than the well, and search had
+              * wandered up to the header. Tooltips are the word, not a sentence. */}
+            <ViewToggle variant="icon" viewMode={null} onViewChange={() => {}} options={[
+              { value: 'filter', label: 'Filter', icon: 'filter', pressed: filtersOn, onClick: () => setSettings({ ...settings, filters: !filtersOn }) },
+              { value: 'search', label: 'Search', icon: 'search', dividerBefore: true, onClick: () => setSearchOpen(true) },
+            ]} />
             <Divider variant="vertical" />
-            <div className="flex items-center gap-4">
-              {[{ value: 'rows', label: 'ROW' }, { value: 'columns', label: 'COLUMN' }].map((opt) => (
-                <span key={opt.value} role="button" onClick={() => setSettings({ ...settings, folderView: opt.value })}
-                  className={`kol-helper-14 cursor-pointer select-none ${folderView === opt.value ? 'text-oq-96' : 'text-oq-48 hover:text-oq-64'}`} style={{ letterSpacing: 1 }}>
-                  {opt.label}
-                </span>
-              ))}
-            </div>
+            <ViewToggle viewMode={view} onViewChange={setView} variant="icon" options={VIEW_OPTIONS} />
           </div>
         </div>
 
@@ -868,160 +1849,79 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
           </MenuItem>
         </div>
 
+        {searchOpen && (
+          <ShellSearchOverlay
+            open
+            onClose={() => { setSearchOpen(false); setSearchQuery('') }}
+            query={searchQuery}
+            onQueryChange={setSearchQuery}
+            placeholder="Search this bucket"
+            results={searchResults}
+            onExpand={() => searchResults[0] && jumpTo(searchResults[0].id)}
+            onSelect={(item) => jumpTo(item.id)}
+          />
+        )}
+        {quickLookFolder && (
+          <FullscreenOverlay open onClose={() => setQuickLookFolder(null)} scrim>
+            <FolderPreview path={quickLookFolder} objects={objects} width={420} formatDate={formatDate} />
+          </FullscreenOverlay>
+        )}
         {quickLook && (
-          <MediaInspector files={quickLook.files} index={quickLook.index} onClose={() => setQuickLook(null)} mediaUrl={mediaUrl} downloadUrl={downloadUrl} keySet={keySet}
-            onPrev={() => setQuickLook((q) => ({ ...q, index: (q.index - 1 + q.files.length) % q.files.length }))}
-            onNext={() => setQuickLook((q) => ({ ...q, index: (q.index + 1) % q.files.length }))} />
+          <MediaInspector files={quickLook.files} index={quickLook.index} onClose={closeQuickLook} mediaUrl={mediaUrl} downloadUrl={downloadUrl} keySet={keySet} showNav={rowSelection.size > 1}
+            onPrev={() => stepQuickLook(-1)} onNext={() => stepQuickLook(1)} />
         )}
         {settingsOpen && (
           <MediaSettings bucketMeta={bucketMeta} settings={settings} profile={profile} onChange={setSettings} onReset={() => setSettings(null)} onClose={() => setSettingsOpen(false)} settingsFooter={settingsFooter} />
         )}
-
-        {folderView === 'columns' ? (
-          <div ref={columnsRef} className="relative">
-            <ColumnBrowser
-              autoFocus={autoFocus}
-              className={appRoot ? 'is-root' : ''}
-              height={settings.columnHeight}
-              onHeightChange={(px) => setSettings({ ...settings, columnHeight: px })}
-              columnWidths={settings.columnWidths}
-              onColumnResize={(i, px) => setSettings({ ...settings, columnWidths: { ...(settings.columnWidths ?? {}), [i]: px } })}
-              objects={sortedObjects.filter((o) => !isSystemFile(o.key)).map((o) => ({ ...o, key: `${VROOT}${o.key}` }))}
-              prefix={single ? prefix : (appRoot ? `${ROOT}/` : `${VROOT}${prefix}`)}
-              onPrefix={(v) => {
-                /* single: the browser's path IS the bucket path, no segment to strip */
-                if (single) { setAppRoot(false); setPrefix(v); return }
-                const [, seg, ...rest] = v.split('/')
-                const target = buckets.find((b) => b.label === seg)
-                if (!target && buckets.length) { setAppRoot(true); setPickedFile(null); setPrefix(''); return }
-                setAppRoot(false)
-                const real = rest.join('/')
-                if (target && target.id !== bucketMeta.id) switchBucket(target.id, real); else setPrefix(real)
-              }}
-              onPick={(o) => setPickedFile(o ? { ...o, key: o.key.slice(VROOT.length) } : null)}
-              quickLook={quickLook && { ...quickLook, files: quickLook.files.map((o) => ({ ...o, key: `${VROOT}${o.key}` })) }}
-              onQuickLook={(q) => setQuickLook(q && { ...q, files: q.files.map((o) => ({ ...o, key: o.key.slice(VROOT.length) })) })}
-              urlOf={(o) => mediaUrl(o.key.slice(VROOT.length))}
-              kindOf={kindOf}
-              kindLabel={KIND_LABEL}
-              formatSize={formatSize}
-              formatDate={formatDate}
-              thumbnailFor={thumbnailFor}
-              folderMeta={folderMeta}
-              /* the PROP wins when a consumer passes one; otherwise the `···`
-                 owns it through settings (item 15) */
-              stackView={stackView ?? settings.stackView ?? 'list'}
-              renderPreview={(o) => {
-                const real = { ...o, key: o.key.slice(VROOT.length) }
-                if (isImage(real.contentType)) return <ImageFrame src={mediaUrl(real.key)} />
-                const poster = posterFor(real.key, keySet)
-                return <KindPreview o={real} urlOf={(x) => mediaUrl(x.key)} poster={poster ? mediaUrl(poster) : undefined} kindOf={kindOf} kindLabel={KIND_LABEL} />
-              }}
-              /* THE COLUMNS SPEAK IN VIRTUAL PATHS. With more than one bucket every level is
-                * prefixed `<title>/<bucket>/` so the stores share one tree — so a path coming OUT
-                * of the browser must be un-rooted before it reaches a file verb, or the store is
-                * asked to move `MEDIA/R2 · kol-media/img/x.jpg`, which it has never heard of. The
-                * row view needs none of this; it is already bucket-relative. */
-              onRowContextMenu={(e, payload) => menu.openAt(e, { ...payload, path: unroot(payload.path) })}
-              dragFor={dragFor ? (path) => dragFor(unroot(path)) : undefined}
-              partition={(objs, level) => {
-                if (!single) {
-                  if (level === '') return { folders: [`${ROOT}/`], files: [] }
-                  if (level === `${ROOT}/`) return { folders: (buckets.length ? buckets : [bucketMeta]).map((b) => `${b.label || 'bucket'}/`), files: [] }
-                }
-                const live = partition(objs, level)
-                const baked = treeFolders(level.slice(VROOT.length))
-                return { folders: [...new Set([...baked, ...live.folders])].sort(), files: live.files }
-              }}
-            />
-          </div>
-        ) : (
-          /* ROW VIEW — the same level the column view draws, not a different one. It used to render
-           * `partition(scoped, prefix).folders` and nothing else, which lost two things: an EMPTY
-           * folder (partition derives folders from file keys, so a folder with no files under it
-           * does not exist to it — `folderTree` is where real nodes live, and the column view was
-           * already merging the two) and every FILE at the level. `#img/` drew 2 rows against the
-           * columns' 4. Folders first, then files, each expandable in place like a list view. */
-          /* SAME AREA AS THE COLUMNS. The row view used to be content-height, so the two folder
-           * views made the page jump between them and the blank space below the last row — where
-           * you right-click for "new folder" and drop to file something here — did not exist. It
-           * takes the column browser's own height now, from the same setting.
-           *
-           * The list IS the current folder, so it is a drop target for `prefix`, matching a column
-           * being a target for its level. Highlight via a data attribute for the same reason. */
-          <ul className="flex flex-col overflow-y-auto kol-row-browser"
-            style={{ height: settings.columnHeight ?? SETTINGS_BASE.columnHeight }}
-            onContextMenu={(e) => menu.openAt(e, { type: 'level', path: prefix })}
-            onDragOver={(e) => {
-              const d = dragFor?.(prefix)
-              if (!d?.canDrop(prefix)) return
-              e.preventDefault()
-              e.currentTarget.dataset.dropOver = '1'
-            }}
-            onDragLeave={(e) => { if (e.currentTarget === e.target) delete e.currentTarget.dataset.dropOver }}
-            onDrop={(e) => {
-              delete e.currentTarget.dataset.dropOver
-              const d = dragFor?.(prefix)
-              if (!d?.canDrop(prefix)) return
-              e.preventDefault()
-              d.onDrop(prefix)
-            }}>
-            {rowLevel(prefix).folders.map((f) => {
-              const path = prefix + f
-              const open = expandedRows.has(path)
-              const order = [...rowLevel(prefix).folders.map((x) => prefix + x), ...rowLevel(prefix).files.map((x) => x.key)]
-              return (
-                <Fragment key={f}>
-                  <FolderRow
-                    name={f} struck={flat} expanded={open}
-                    selected={rowSelection.has(path)}
-                    onContextMenu={(e) => menu.openAt(e, { type: 'folder', path, targets: targetsFor(path) })}
-                    drag={dragFor?.(path)}
-                    meta={folderMeta?.(path) || undefined}
-                    onToggle={() => setExpandedRows((prev) => {
-                      const next = new Set(prev)
-                      next.has(path) ? next.delete(path) : next.add(path)
-                      return next
-                    })}
-                    onClick={(e) => { if (!selectRow(path, e, order)) setPrefix(path) }}
-                  />
-                  {open && <RowSubtree
-                    level={path} depth={1} rowLevel={rowLevel} expanded={expandedRows}
-                    onToggle={(p) => setExpandedRows((prev) => { const n = new Set(prev); n.has(p) ? n.delete(p) : n.add(p); return n })}
-                    onOpenFolder={setPrefix} onOpenFile={(o) => setPickedFile(o)}
-                    onRowContextMenu={(e, payload) => menu.openAt(e, payload)} dragFor={dragFor}
-                    formatDate={formatDate} folderMeta={folderMeta} thumbnailFor={thumbnailFor} flat={flat}
-                  />}
-                </Fragment>
-              )
-            })}
-            {rowLevel(prefix).files.map((o) => (
-              <FileRow key={o.key} o={o} formatDate={formatDate} thumb={thumbnailFor?.(o)}
-                selected={rowSelection.has(o.key)}
-                onContextMenu={(e) => menu.openAt(e, { type: 'file', path: o.key, o, targets: targetsFor(o.key) })}
-                drag={dragFor?.(o.key)}
-                onClick={(e) => {
-                  const order = [...rowLevel(prefix).folders.map((x) => prefix + x), ...rowLevel(prefix).files.map((x) => x.key)]
-                  if (!selectRow(o.key, e, order)) setPickedFile(o)
-                }} />
-            ))}
-          </ul>
+        {trashOpen && trash && (
+          <TrashPanel trash={trash} onClose={() => setTrashOpen(false)} run={runAction} confirm={modal.confirm} />
         )}
 
-        {/* `mt-2` BALANCES THE INK, not the boxes (user 2026-09-21: "what was unclear about matching
-          * the gap above to below"). The column pane, the crumb row above it and this line share one
-          * `gap-3`, so box-to-box both gaps are 12px — but the crumb row's box runs 8px lower than
-          * its own text, because the ROW·COLUMN icon buttons are taller than the crumbs. Measured
-          * against the pane's BORDER: 20px above, 12px below. The 8 puts the text gaps level. */}
-        {appRoot && folderView === 'columns' && folderTree ? (
-          <p className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-48 mt-2">
+        {/* THE FILTER BAR, above whichever body is mounted (2026-09-22). It filters FILES, so the
+          * tree is scoped to the keys it leaves and the wall renders them directly. Off by default
+          * — the funnel in the crumb row turns it on. */}
+        {filtersOn ? (
+          <ContentFilters
+            items={filterItems}
+            title="Files"
+            totalCount={filterItems.length}
+            searchKeys={['displayKey']}
+            filterGroups={[{ label: 'Kind', key: 'kind', values: filterKinds }]}
+            mutuallyExclusiveFilters={['kind']}
+            /* ONE FUNNEL, NOT TWO (2026-09-22): the crumb row's funnel mounts this bar AND opens
+             * its panel, and the bar's own funnel closes the bar — the same switch from either
+             * end, instead of two controls that each do half of it. */
+            filtersOpen
+            onFiltersOpenChange={(open) => { if (!open) setSettings({ ...settings, filters: false }) }}
+            renderItem={(filtered) => body(filtered)}
+          />
+        ) : body(null)}
+
+        {/* THE GAPS MATCH ABOVE AND BELOW (user 2026-09-21: "what was unclear about matching the
+          * gap above to below"). This carried `mt-2` while the crumb row's icon toggle made that
+          * row 8px taller than its text; the toggle was cut 2026-09-22, the crumb row is text
+          * height again, and one shared `gap-3` puts both gaps level on its own. */}
+        {/* THE COUNT LINE IS EVERY VIEW'S (user 2026-09-23) — and in the grid it carries the tile-size
+          * slider at its right end, bare: no glyph, no readout (Finder's). */}
+        {isWall ? (
+          /* ONE LINE'S HEIGHT, like the other views' count line — the slider is 24px tall and made
+           * this row 8px taller than the fill budget, so the page scrolled by that much */
+          <div className="flex items-center justify-between gap-4 h-4">
+            <p className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-48">
+              {wallFiles.length} {wallFiles.length === 1 ? 'file' : 'files'} · {formatSize(wallFiles.reduce((n, o) => n + (o.size ?? 0), 0))}
+            </p>
+            <input type="range" className="slider-black w-32 cursor-pointer" min={100} max={360} step={20} value={tileSize}
+              onChange={(e) => setSettings({ ...settings, tileSize: Number(e.target.value) })} aria-label="Tile size" />
+          </div>
+        ) : appRoot && folderView === 'columns' && folderTree ? (
+          <p className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-48">
             {buckets.length} buckets · {Object.values(folderTree).reduce((n, t) => n + (t.files ?? 0), 0)} files · {formatSize(Object.values(folderTree).reduce((n, t) => n + (t.bytes ?? 0), 0))}
           </p>
         ) : (
-          <p className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-48 mt-2">
+          <p className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-48">
             {folders.length > 0 && `${folders.length} folder${folders.length > 1 ? 's' : ''} · `}
             {rawFiles.length} {rawFiles.length === 1 ? 'file' : 'files'} · {formatSize(totalBytes)}
-            {(!prefix || flat) && rawFiles.length !== bucketFiles && <span className="text-fg-32">{'  ·  bucket: '}{bucketFiles} files · {formatSize(bucketBytes)}</span>}
+            {!prefix && rawFiles.length !== bucketFiles && <span className="text-fg-32">{'  ·  bucket: '}{bucketFiles} files · {formatSize(bucketBytes)}</span>}
             {systemCount > 0 && <span className="text-fg-32">{'  ·  '}{systemCount} system files hidden</span>}
           </p>
         )}
@@ -1040,6 +1940,15 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
                * not one of them — renaming five things to one name is not a thing — so it stays
                * single and disappears from a multi-selection rather than lying about what it does. */
               const many = (target.targets ?? []).length > 1 ? target.targets : null
+              const custom = (fileActions.items ?? []).filter((it) => !it.when || it.when(target))
+              const customItems = custom.length > 0 && (
+                <>
+                  <MenuDropdownDivider />
+                  {custom.map((it) => (
+                    <MenuDropdownItem key={it.label} iconLeft={it.icon ? <Icon name={it.icon} size={14} /> : undefined} onClick={() => runAction(() => it.run(target))}>{it.label}</MenuDropdownItem>
+                  ))}
+                </>
+              )
               if (many) {
                 return (
                   <>
@@ -1048,9 +1957,16 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
                     {fileActions.move && (
                       <MenuDropdownItem iconLeft={<Icon name="arrow-right" size={14} />} onClick={() => doBatch(many, 'move', 'Move')}>Move {many.length} to…</MenuDropdownItem>
                     )}
+                    {many.every((p) => !p.endsWith('/')) && (
+                      <>
+                        <MenuDropdownItem iconLeft={<Icon name="copy" size={14} />} onClick={() => doCopyUrl(many)}>Copy {many.length} URLs</MenuDropdownItem>
+                        <MenuDropdownItem iconLeft={<Icon name="download" size={14} />} onClick={() => doDownload(many)}>Download {many.length}</MenuDropdownItem>
+                      </>
+                    )}
                     {fileActions.remove && (
                       <MenuDropdownItem iconLeft={<Icon name="trash" size={14} />} onClick={() => doBatch(many, 'remove', 'Delete')}>Delete {many.length}</MenuDropdownItem>
                     )}
+                    {customItems}
                   </>
                 )
               }
@@ -1066,6 +1982,11 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
                       New file
                     </MenuDropdownItem>
                   )}
+                  {dropFilesTo && !(target.type === 'file') && (
+                    <MenuDropdownItem iconLeft={<Icon name="upload" size={14} />} onClick={() => doUpload(target.path)}>
+                      {isFolder ? `Upload into ${target.path.replace(/\/$/, '').split('/').pop()}…` : 'Upload here…'}
+                    </MenuDropdownItem>
+                  )}
                   {!isLevel && <MenuDropdownDivider />}
                   {!isLevel && fileActions.rename && (
                     <MenuDropdownItem iconLeft={<Icon name="edit" size={14} />} onClick={() => doRename(target.path, isFolder)}>Rename</MenuDropdownItem>
@@ -1073,12 +1994,23 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
                   {!isLevel && fileActions.move && (
                     <MenuDropdownItem iconLeft={<Icon name="arrow-right" size={14} />} onClick={() => doMove(target.path)}>Move to…</MenuDropdownItem>
                   )}
+                  {/* A FOLDER GETS COPY URL TOO (user 2026-09-23) — through the SAME `mediaUrl`
+                      seam a file goes through, so what a folder URL means is the consumer's call
+                      (a CDN prefix, a listing, a signed path) and never this page's guess. No
+                      Download: a folder is not an object to fetch. */}
+                  {!isLevel && (
+                    <MenuDropdownItem iconLeft={<Icon name="copy" size={14} />} onClick={() => doCopyUrl([target.path])}>Copy URL</MenuDropdownItem>
+                  )}
+                  {target.type === 'file' && (
+                    <MenuDropdownItem iconLeft={<Icon name="download" size={14} />} onClick={() => doDownload([target.path])}>Download</MenuDropdownItem>
+                  )}
                   {!isLevel && fileActions.remove && (
                     <>
                       <MenuDropdownDivider />
                       <MenuDropdownItem iconLeft={<Icon name="trash" size={14} />} onClick={() => doDelete(target.path, isFolder)}>Delete</MenuDropdownItem>
                     </>
                   )}
+                  {customItems}
                 </>
               )
             }}
@@ -1108,6 +2040,172 @@ export function MediaLibraryBrowse({
   )
 }
 
+
+/* ── THE WALL, as a body ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+ * The grid / list of files, its paging and its inspector, lifted out of
+ * `MediaLibraryLibrary` so ONE surface can render it beside the folder views
+ * (the merge, user 2026-09-22: "they both just display files"). The page above
+ * it owns the listing, the filtering and the selection; this owns the tiles.
+ *
+ * `renderName` / `renderActions` are seams because the standalone wall edits a
+ * name in place and the merged surface does not — the markup is the same either
+ * way, which is the whole reason this is one component and not two.
+ */
+/* The kinds that ARE a document — the ones whose page is worth zooming into a tile. */
+const DOC_KINDS = new Set(['markdown', 'json', 'yaml', 'text', 'code'])
+
+/* THE TILE MEASURES ITSELF (user 2026-09-23: *"is nothing about the thumbnails responsive?"*).
+ * A document in a tile is zoomed, and the zoom was a fixed step — so the same file read one size
+ * in a 260px card and another in a 400px one, because `zoom` reflows the page: at zoom z a
+ * `width: 100%` page lays out at box/z CSS pixels. Solving for a CONSTANT page width keeps the
+ * text the same physical size at every tile size: z = box / PAGE. That number cannot be derived
+ * in CSS from the box, which is why this measures.
+ *
+ * `PAGE` is the width the page is laid out AT, not a paper size: 720 is where the doc page's
+ * 24px padding, prose measure and code blocks read as a page rather than as a column of wrap. */
+/* CODE IS NOT PROSE, so it is not laid out on a prose page (user 2026-09-23: *"code is small here
+ * in the container"*). A narrower target page means a bigger zoom for the same box, which is what
+ * makes 60-column code readable in a tile where a 720px page turned it into texture. */
+const DOC_PAGE_W = 720
+const CODE_PAGE_W = 460
+const pageWidthFor = (kind) => (kind === 'markdown' || kind === 'text' ? DOC_PAGE_W : CODE_PAGE_W)
+const DOC_ZOOM_MIN = 0.18
+const DOC_ZOOM_MAX = 0.6
+
+function DocThumb({ children, className, onClick, pageWidth = DOC_PAGE_W }) {
+  const box = useRef(null)
+  const [zoom, setZoom] = useState(null)
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const el = box.current
+    if (!el || typeof ResizeObserver === 'undefined') return undefined
+    const measure = () => {
+      const w = el.getBoundingClientRect().width
+      if (!w) return
+      setZoom(Math.min(DOC_ZOOM_MAX, Math.max(DOC_ZOOM_MIN, Math.round((w / pageWidth) * 100) / 100)))
+    }
+    measure()
+    const ro = new ResizeObserver(measure)
+    ro.observe(el)
+    return () => ro.disconnect()
+  }, [pageWidth])
+  return (
+    <div ref={box} className={className} onClick={onClick} style={zoom ? { '--kol-thumb-zoom': zoom } : undefined}>
+      {children}
+    </div>
+  )
+}
+
+export function WallBody({
+  files, layout = 'list', sortBy = 'name', sortDir = 'asc', pageSize = 200, listId = '', cardMin = 260,
+  mediaUrl, downloadUrl, keySet, videoPreview, formatDate = defaultFormatDate,
+  selected, selectMode = false, onToggleSelect, onSorted, onContextMenu, onPick,
+  /* ONE INSPECTOR (user 2026-09-23). Given `onOpen`, the wall hands the open UP and keeps no
+   * lightbox of its own — otherwise a page that also opens one (space, a row double-click) ends up
+   * with two stacked overlays of the same file. The standalone wall passes nothing and keeps its
+   * own, exactly as it was. */
+  onOpen,
+  renderName = (o) => o.displayKey?.split('/').pop() ?? o.key.split('/').pop(),
+  renderActions,
+  /* `tiles="media"` (2026-09-23) — the file manager's grid: `MediaTile`, preview over name, no card
+   * and no buttons (the verbs live in the right-click menu and Quick Look). `card` is the site
+   * wall's `ContentCard` and stays the default, so an embedded wall renders exactly as before. */
+  tiles = 'card',
+  /* the grid's drag-select band and its empty-space click — both the page's, like the rows' */
+  marquee, onBackgroundClick,
+}) {
+  const PAGE = pageSize || Infinity
+  const [visible, setVisible] = useState(PAGE)
+  const [lastListId, setLastListId] = useState(listId)
+  const [lightboxIndex, setLightboxIndex] = useState(null)
+  if (listId !== lastListId) { setLastListId(listId); setVisible(PAGE) }
+  if (layout === 'off') return null
+
+  /* ONE PREVIEWER — `KindPreview`, as the column pane uses. An image is the caller's <img>, a
+   * video keeps its sibling poster when the bucket has one, and every other kind falls through. */
+  const renderThumb = (o, onClick) => {
+    const kind = kindOf(o)
+    const poster = (isVideo(o.contentType) || kind === 'playlist') ? posterFor(o.key, keySet) : null
+    const imgSrc = isImage(o.contentType) ? mediaUrl(o.key) : poster && videoPreview !== 'none' ? mediaUrl(poster) : null
+    if (imgSrc) return <img src={imgSrc} alt="" loading="lazy" className={onClick ? 'cursor-zoom-in' : undefined} onClick={onClick || undefined} />
+    if (isVideo(o.contentType) && videoPreview === 'none') {
+      return (
+        <div className={`w-full h-full flex items-center justify-center bg-oq-04 overflow-hidden${onClick ? ' cursor-zoom-in' : ''}`} onClick={onClick || undefined}>
+          <span className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-48">video</span>
+        </div>
+      )
+    }
+    /* ONE LADDER (user 2026-09-23). Every kind that is not the caller's own image goes through
+     * `KindPreview` at `fit="tile"` — audio gets the same tile the pane shows, a PDF its first
+     * page, a document its zoomed page. The glyph branch that stood here was a second ladder, and
+     * a second ladder is the thing this pass exists to delete: a glyph is for a FOLDER. */
+    const cls = `kol-media-thumb w-full h-full flex items-center justify-center bg-oq-04 overflow-hidden${onClick ? ' cursor-zoom-in' : ''}`
+    const preview = <KindPreview o={o} fit="tile" urlOf={(x) => mediaUrl(x.key)} poster={poster ? mediaUrl(poster) : undefined} kindOf={kindOf} kindLabel={KIND_LABEL} />
+    if (DOC_KINDS.has(kind)) {
+      return <DocThumb className={cls} pageWidth={pageWidthFor(kind)} onClick={onClick || undefined}>{preview}</DocThumb>
+    }
+    return <div className={cls} onClick={onClick || undefined}>{preview}</div>
+  }
+
+  const sorted = sortFiles(files, sortBy, sortDir)
+  onSorted?.(sorted)
+  const shown = sorted.slice(0, visible)
+  const more = sorted.length - shown.length
+  const isSelected = (key) => !!selected?.has(key)
+  const openAt = (o, idx) => (onOpen ? onOpen(o, sorted) : setLightboxIndex(idx))
+  return (
+    <div className="flex flex-col gap-3">
+      {sorted.length === 0 ? null : layout !== 'grid' ? (
+        <div className="flex flex-col">
+          {shown.map((o, idx) => (
+            <ContentRow key={o.key} variant="default" media={renderThumb(o, null)} title={renderName(o)} date={formatDate(o.uploaded)} size={formatSize(o.size)}
+              actions={renderActions?.(o, true)} selected={isSelected(o.key)}
+              onContextMenu={onContextMenu ? (e) => onContextMenu(e, o) : undefined}
+              onDoubleClick={() => openAt(o, idx)}
+              onClick={selectMode ? (e) => onToggleSelect?.(idx, o.key, e.shiftKey) : onPick ? (e) => onPick(o, e, sorted.map((f) => f.key)) : undefined} />
+          ))}
+        </div>
+      ) : tiles === 'media' ? (
+        <div ref={marquee?.ref} {...marquee?.props} className="relative grid gap-x-3 gap-y-5"
+          style={{ gridTemplateColumns: `repeat(auto-fill, minmax(${cardMin}px, 1fr))` }}
+          onClick={(e) => { if (!e.target.closest('[data-marquee-key]')) onBackgroundClick?.() }}>
+          {marquee?.rect && <div className="kol-marquee" style={marquee.rect} />}
+          {shown.map((o, idx) => (
+            <MediaTile key={o.key} markKey={o.key} preview={renderThumb(o, null)} name={renderName(o)} selected={isSelected(o.key)}
+              onContextMenu={onContextMenu ? (e) => onContextMenu(e, o) : undefined}
+              onDoubleClick={() => openAt(o, idx)}
+              onClick={onPick ? (e) => onPick(o, e, sorted.map((f) => f.key)) : undefined} />
+          ))}
+        </div>
+      ) : (
+        <div className="grid gap-3" style={{ gridTemplateColumns: `repeat(auto-fill, minmax(${cardMin}px, 1fr))` }}>
+          {shown.map((o, idx) => (
+            <ContentCard key={o.key} variant="default" media={renderThumb(o, null)}
+              control={<ActionButton chrome="media" icon="download" confirmIcon="check" label="Download" confirmLabel="Downloaded" href={downloadUrl(o.key)} />}
+              controlStart={selectMode ? <ToggleCheckbox variant="media" checked={isSelected(o.key)} onChange={() => onToggleSelect?.(idx, o.key, false)} onClick={(e) => e.stopPropagation()} aria-label={`Select ${o.key}`} /> : undefined}
+              title={renderName(o)} date={formatDate(o.uploaded)} size={<SizeOrDownload href={downloadUrl(o.key)}>{formatSize(o.size)}</SizeOrDownload>}
+              actions={renderActions?.(o)} selected={isSelected(o.key)}
+              onContextMenu={onContextMenu ? (e) => onContextMenu(e, o) : undefined}
+              /* ONE GESTURE SET ACROSS THE THREE VIEWS (2026-09-23): click selects, double-click
+               * opens, right-click is the menu. The media used to open on a single click, which
+               * made the grid the one view where a click did something else. */
+              onDoubleClick={() => openAt(o, idx)}
+              onClick={selectMode ? (e) => onToggleSelect?.(idx, o.key, e.shiftKey) : onPick ? (e) => onPick(o, e, sorted.map((f) => f.key)) : undefined} />
+          ))}
+        </div>
+      )}
+      {more > 0 && (
+        <button type="button" onClick={() => setVisible((v) => v + PAGE)} className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-48 hover:text-fg-default transition-colors self-start py-2">
+          Show {Math.min(more, PAGE)} more · {more} remaining
+        </button>
+      )}
+      {lightboxIndex !== null && !onOpen && (
+        <MediaInspector files={sorted} index={lightboxIndex} onClose={() => setLightboxIndex(null)} mediaUrl={mediaUrl} downloadUrl={downloadUrl} keySet={keySet}
+          onPrev={() => setLightboxIndex((i) => (i - 1 + sorted.length) % sorted.length)} onNext={() => setLightboxIndex((i) => (i + 1) % sorted.length)} />
+      )}
+    </div>
+  )
+}
+
 /* ══ LIBRARY — the content-filters wall ═══════════════════════════════════ */
 export function MediaLibraryLibrary({
   client, title = 'MEDIA', bucket, onBucketChange, prefix = '', defaults, settings: settingsProp, onSettingsChange,
@@ -1135,8 +2233,9 @@ export function MediaLibraryLibrary({
   const bucketId = bucket ?? ownBucket
   const lib = useBucketLibrary({ client, bucket: bucketId, defaults, settings: settingsProp, onSettingsChange, refreshKey })
   const { buckets, bucketMeta, settings, setSettings, objects, setObjects, error, mediaUrl, downloadUrl, writable } = lib
+  /* the same one dialog idiom as the browse page — see its note on `useModal()` */
+  const modal = useModal()
   const [settingsOpen, setSettingsOpen] = useState(false)
-  const [lightboxIndex, setLightboxIndex] = useState(null)
   const [editingKey, setEditingKey] = useState(null)
   const [editingValue, setEditingValue] = useState('')
   const [renaming, setRenaming] = useState(false)
@@ -1150,11 +2249,7 @@ export function MediaLibraryLibrary({
   const kinds = new Set(settings.kinds)
   const setFlat = (v) => setSettings({ ...settings, flat: v })
   const setLayout = (v) => setSettings({ ...settings, layout: v })
-  const PAGE = pageSize || Infinity
-  const [visible, setVisible] = useState(PAGE)
   const listId = `${prefix}|${flat}|${[...kinds].sort().join(',')}|${pageSize}|${refreshKey}|${bucketMeta.id}`
-  const [lastListId, setLastListId] = useState(listId)
-  if (listId !== lastListId) { setLastListId(listId); setVisible(PAGE) }
   const handleSort = (field) => setSettings(sortBy === field ? { ...settings, sortDir: sortDir === 'asc' ? 'desc' : 'asc' } : { ...settings, sortBy: field, sortDir: 'asc' })
 
   useEffect(() => {
@@ -1183,8 +2278,8 @@ export function MediaLibraryLibrary({
 
   const handleCopy = (key) => navigator.clipboard.writeText(mediaUrl(key))
   const handleDelete = async (key) => {
-    if (!confirm(`Delete "${key}"? This cannot be undone.`)) return
-    try { await client.deleteObject(key); setObjects((prev) => prev.filter((o) => o.key !== key)) } catch (e) { alert(`Delete failed: ${e.message}`) }
+    if (!(await modal.confirm(`Delete "${key}"? This cannot be undone.`, { okLabel: 'Delete' }))) return
+    try { await client.deleteObject(key); setObjects((prev) => prev.filter((o) => o.key !== key)) } catch (e) { await modal.alert(`Delete failed: ${e.message}`) }
   }
   const startRename = (key) => { setEditingKey(key); setEditingValue(key) }
   const cancelRename = () => { setEditingKey(null); setEditingValue('') }
@@ -1193,7 +2288,7 @@ export function MediaLibraryLibrary({
     if (!from || !to || from === to) { cancelRename(); return }
     setRenaming(true)
     try { const r = await client.renameObject(from, to); const newKey = r?.to || to; setObjects((prev) => prev.map((o) => (o.key === from ? { ...o, key: newKey } : o))); setEditingKey(null); setEditingValue('') }
-    catch (e) { alert(`Rename failed: ${e.message}`) } finally { setRenaming(false) }
+    catch (e) { await modal.alert(`Rename failed: ${e.message}`) } finally { setRenaming(false) }
   }
   const toggleSelect = (idx, key, shift) => {
     setSelected((prev) => {
@@ -1208,8 +2303,8 @@ export function MediaLibraryLibrary({
   const selectAll = () => setSelected(new Set(sortedRef.current.map((o) => o.key)))
   const exitSelect = () => { setSelectMode(false); setSelected(new Set()); setLastIdx(null) }
   const batchMove = async () => {
-    const folder = prompt(`Move ${selected.size} file(s) into folder (under ${prefix || 'root'}):`)
-    if (folder === null) return
+    const folder = await modal.prompt(`Move ${selected.size} file(s) into folder (under ${prefix || 'root'}):`, '', { okLabel: 'Move' })
+    if (folder == null) return
     const clean = folder.replace(/^\/+|\/+$/g, '').trim()
     if (!clean) return
     setBusy(true)
@@ -1221,16 +2316,16 @@ export function MediaLibraryLibrary({
     }
     setObjects((prev) => prev.map((o) => (remap.has(o.key) ? { ...o, key: remap.get(o.key) } : o)))
     setBusy(false); exitSelect()
-    if (failures.length) alert(`Moved ${remap.size}. ${failures.length} failed:\n${failures.join('\n')}`)
+    if (failures.length) await modal.alert(`Moved ${remap.size}. ${failures.length} failed:\n${failures.join('\n')}`)
   }
   const batchDelete = async () => {
-    if (!confirm(`Delete ${selected.size} file(s)? This cannot be undone.`)) return
+    if (!(await modal.confirm(`Delete ${selected.size} file(s)? This cannot be undone.`, { okLabel: 'Delete' }))) return
     setBusy(true)
     const done = []; const failures = []
     for (const key of selected) { try { await client.deleteObject(key); done.push(key) } catch (e) { failures.push(`${key.split('/').pop()}: ${e.message}`) } }
     setObjects((prev) => prev.filter((o) => !done.includes(o.key)))
     setBusy(false); exitSelect()
-    if (failures.length) alert(`Deleted ${done.length}. ${failures.length} failed:\n${failures.join('\n')}`)
+    if (failures.length) await modal.alert(`Deleted ${done.length}. ${failures.length} failed:\n${failures.join('\n')}`)
   }
   const batchDownload = () => {
     for (const key of selected) { const a = document.createElement('a'); a.href = downloadUrl(key); a.download = key.split('/').pop(); document.body.appendChild(a); a.click(); a.remove() }
@@ -1268,36 +2363,6 @@ export function MediaLibraryLibrary({
     }
     return o.displayKey.split('/').pop()
   }
-  /* ONE PREVIEWER (2026-09-21). This was a hand-rolled ladder that knew image, a sibling poster
-   * and an autoloaded video, and printed the literal word "video" or "markdown" for everything
-   * else — while the column preview eight hundred lines up already called `KindPreview`, which
-   * renders markdown, code, json, yaml, audio and HLS for real. That is why every kind previewed
-   * in the column pane and nothing previewed in the grid or the list: two previewers for one
-   * object, and the wall's predates the component.
-   *
-   * Images stay the caller's, as they are in the column pane and as `KindPreview` documents —
-   * it has no image branch on purpose, because in a frame the frame draws its own. A video keeps
-   * its poster when the bucket has a sibling still, because a poster is cheaper than the file and
-   * `videoPreview` is the consumer's setting about exactly that. Everything else falls through. */
-  const renderThumb = (o, onClick) => {
-    const kind = kindOf(o)
-    const poster = (isVideo(o.contentType) || kind === 'playlist') ? posterFor(o.key, keySet) : null
-    const imgSrc = isImage(o.contentType) ? mediaUrl(o.key) : poster && videoPreview !== 'none' ? mediaUrl(poster) : null
-    if (imgSrc) return <img src={imgSrc} alt="" loading="lazy" className={onClick ? 'cursor-zoom-in' : undefined} onClick={onClick || undefined} />
-    if (isVideo(o.contentType) && videoPreview === 'none') {
-      return (
-        <div className={`w-full h-full flex items-center justify-center bg-fg-04 overflow-hidden${onClick ? ' cursor-zoom-in' : ''}`} onClick={onClick || undefined}>
-          <span className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-48">video</span>
-        </div>
-      )
-    }
-    return (
-      <div className={`kol-media-thumb w-full h-full flex items-center justify-center bg-fg-04 overflow-hidden${onClick ? ' cursor-zoom-in' : ''}`} onClick={onClick || undefined}>
-        <KindPreview o={o} urlOf={(x) => mediaUrl(x.key)} poster={poster ? mediaUrl(poster) : undefined} kindOf={kindOf} kindLabel={KIND_LABEL} />
-      </div>
-    )
-  }
-
   const layoutOptions = [
     ...(writable ? [{ value: 'grid', label: selectMode ? 'CANCEL' : 'SELECT', active: !selectMode, title: 'Select multiple files', onClick: () => (selectMode ? exitSelect() : setSelectMode(true)) }] : []),
     { value: 'list', label: flat ? 'TREE' : 'FLAT', active: flat, title: 'Show all files recursively', onClick: () => setFlat(!flat) },
@@ -1350,44 +2415,13 @@ export function MediaLibraryLibrary({
         onLayoutChange={setLayout}
         trailingActions={<div className="flex items-center gap-6"><ViewToggle viewMode={layout} onViewChange={setLayout} variant="icon" options={LAYOUT_OPTIONS} /></div>}
         belowActions={layout === 'off' ? null : <div className="h-8 flex items-center"><SortControls options={SORT_OPTIONS} sortBy={sortBy} sortDir={sortDir} onSort={handleSort} /></div>}
-        renderItem={(filtered) => {
-          if (layout === 'off') return null
-          const sorted = sortFiles(filtered, sortBy, sortDir)
-          sortedRef.current = sorted
-          const shown = sorted.slice(0, visible)
-          const more = sorted.length - shown.length
-          return (
-            <div className="flex flex-col gap-3">
-              {sorted.length === 0 ? null : layout !== 'grid' ? (
-                <div className="flex flex-col">
-                  {shown.map((o, idx) => (
-                    <ContentRow key={o.key} variant="default" media={renderThumb(o, selectMode ? null : () => setLightboxIndex(idx))} title={renderNameCell(o)} date={formatDate(o.uploaded)} size={formatSize(o.size)}
-                      actions={renderActions(o, true)} selected={selected.has(o.key)} onClick={selectMode ? (e) => toggleSelect(idx, o.key, e.shiftKey) : undefined} />
-                  ))}
-                </div>
-              ) : (
-                <div className="grid gap-3 grid-cols-[repeat(auto-fill,minmax(260px,1fr))]">
-                  {shown.map((o, idx) => (
-                    <ContentCard key={o.key} variant="default" media={renderThumb(o, selectMode ? null : () => setLightboxIndex(idx))}
-                      control={<ActionButton chrome="media" icon="download" confirmIcon="check" label="Download" confirmLabel="Downloaded" href={downloadUrl(o.key)} />}
-                      controlStart={selectMode ? <ToggleCheckbox variant="media" checked={selected.has(o.key)} onChange={() => toggleSelect(idx, o.key, false)} onClick={(e) => e.stopPropagation()} aria-label={`Select ${o.key}`} /> : undefined}
-                      title={renderNameCell(o)} date={formatDate(o.uploaded)} size={<SizeOrDownload href={downloadUrl(o.key)}>{formatSize(o.size)}</SizeOrDownload>}
-                      actions={renderActions(o)} selected={selected.has(o.key)} onClick={selectMode ? (e) => toggleSelect(idx, o.key, e.shiftKey) : undefined} />
-                  ))}
-                </div>
-              )}
-              {more > 0 && (
-                <button type="button" onClick={() => setVisible((v) => v + PAGE)} className="kol-mono-12 text-fg-48 hover:text-fg-default transition-colors self-start py-2">
-                  Show {Math.min(more, PAGE)} more · {more} remaining
-                </button>
-              )}
-              {lightboxIndex !== null && (
-                <MediaInspector files={sorted} index={lightboxIndex} onClose={() => setLightboxIndex(null)} mediaUrl={mediaUrl} downloadUrl={downloadUrl} keySet={keySet}
-                  onPrev={() => setLightboxIndex((i) => (i - 1 + sorted.length) % sorted.length)} onNext={() => setLightboxIndex((i) => (i + 1) % sorted.length)} />
-              )}
-            </div>
-          )
-        }}
+        /* ONE WALL BODY, shared with the merged surface (2026-09-22) */
+        renderItem={(filtered) => (
+          <WallBody files={filtered} layout={layout} sortBy={sortBy} sortDir={sortDir} pageSize={pageSize} listId={listId}
+            mediaUrl={mediaUrl} downloadUrl={downloadUrl} keySet={keySet} videoPreview={videoPreview} formatDate={formatDate}
+            selected={selected} selectMode={selectMode} onToggleSelect={toggleSelect} onSorted={(list) => { sortedRef.current = list }}
+            renderName={renderNameCell} renderActions={renderActions} />
+        )}
       />
 
       {/* the pill again — the wall is one of the surfaces it switches, so it