feat: the help is a submenu, with a contextual-help layer and a guided tour

The hamburger menu's help rows were three flat entries and a window. They are a **`Help` submenu**
now, which is where every GNOME menu keeps them, with the four things a first run cannot find:

  - Keyboard shortcuts   Ctrl+/   (the existing overview, `show_shortcuts()`)
  - Documentation        F1      (the existing manual, `show_help()`)
  - Guided tour          Ctrl+T  (new)
  - Enable contextual help        (new, a stateful row: its check *is* the setting)

The submenu *replaces* the menu's rows rather than floating beside them, the same shape and the same
reason as the plot's right-click menu: a submenu torn out of the menu it belongs to is a second thing
to dismiss, and the `GtkMenuButton` that owned one toggled itself out of sync the moment anything
else closed its popover. It is the pages of a `GtkStack`, not a rebuild of the box and not a swap of
the popover's child: the main view holds `app.layout_toggle`, which the tick's `sync_layout_editor()`
and the `L` accel read, so rebuilding would leave that pointer on a destroyed widget, and a swapped
child would leave the view that is not showing without an owner.

**The contextual help is one table and a "?" per surface** (`src/ui_context_help.cpp`): the plot, the
trigger, the cursors, the measurements, the math channels, the signals, the event history, the time
window, the status line, and the math editor's identity row. Each row names the *heading box* its
button joins -- a sibling of the title, never an overlay child on a corner, which is what would cover
the switch or the [edit] button already there -- so adding a surface is a row and a widget pointer.
Off means *gone*, not greyed: the buttons are removed, and they are found by a data key rather than a
list of pointers because the math editor's heading is built afresh on every opening and a list would
go stale one dialog later. `contextual_help` and `tour_seen` are keys of `settings.toml`, written
through the same `Settings`/`load_settings()`/`save_settings()` the Preferences dialog uses, whose own
rows start from `load_settings()` and so carry them through untouched.

**The guided tour is five steps on a `GtkOverlay`** above the window's content: the plot, the side
panel, the trigger, the signals and the status line. There is no popover in it and therefore no pointer
grab to leak -- four dim rectangles around the hole are what make it modal -- and the probe asserts
that as a reading (`controllers=` against the count taken before it opened) rather than as a claim.
Everything is placed from `gtk_widget_compute_bounds()` re-read on every frame, because a widget's
allocation is 0 on the frame it is first shown and a window resize moves it under a one-shot
measurement; the hole is kept from the last frame that could measure the target, because a frame that
lands between two layout passes would otherwise empty it and make the spotlight jump. `Skip`, `Finish`
and `Escape` all hide every child and leave nothing behind.

A first run gets the tour once, decided by `tour_seen` and not by "the settings file did not exist" (a
user who changed the theme has a file and has still never seen it), and the flag is written when the
tour *starts* rather than when it finishes: a user who skips it in the first second has still seen it.

`UDPSCOPE_PROBE_HELPUI_MS` drives all of it -- the auto-start, the menu's seven rows and the
submenu's five, the toggle's effect read as a count of affordances on either side of it, and the tour
started, stepped forwards and back and dismissed -- and the exit dump gains `help layer:` and
`help figures:`, the latter being the ten surfaces' window-coordinate rectangles that the manual's
annotated screenshots crop their boxes from. Two of them are what the D-Bus-free headless run can
still not decide, and both are limitations rather than defects: export carries no "?" (it is a menu
action with no surface of its own, and a popover inside the menu's popover is the nested-popover trap
the invariants already warn about), and the tour card cannot miss its target when the target is the
whole content -- which is what the plot is at the window's 756 px minimum, where the split view
overlays the side panel instead of putting it beside the plot. The probe prints both rectangles
rather than asserting a placement, so that case reads as the geometry it is.

Also fixed while it was found: `gtk_widget_measure()` includes the widget's own margins (measured: a
280 px box with `margin-start 453` reports 733), so a measure that is used to *place* the widget is a
feedback loop -- that is what made the tour card walk between the corner and the target from frame to
frame.
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@@ -303,6 +303,20 @@ as distinct from the fault injection below, which exercises ingest:
`GtkMenuButton`-owned submenu failed, its row going dead on the second click. Each view is
measured a step after the click that swapped it in, because a popover allocates its new child on
the next layout pass.
- `UDPSCOPE_PROBE_HELPUI_MS` — the help affordance layer, end to end, in ten steps 300–400 ms apart:
the **first-run auto-start** (run it once with a throwaway `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` to see `auto=1`, and
again against the same one to see it not repeat), the menu's seven rows and the **four entries of
the Help submenu**, the **contextual-help toggle** with the count of "?" affordances on either side
of it, the tour **started from the probe** and stepped forwards, back and dismissed, and `help
figures:` read in both of the trigger pane's modes. Its lines and what each asserts are in
[probe-readings.md](probe-readings.md); the two things to read first are **`hints=0`** while the
toggle is off (off is *gone*, not greyed) and **`controllers=12 (was 12)`** after the dismissal (no
lingering input grab — a tour of ordinary overlay widgets takes none). Give it
`UDPSCOPE_EXIT_AFTER_MS=9500 UDPSCOPE_EXIT_DUMP=1` to get the `help layer:`/`help figures:` dump
lines as well, and note the tour **auto-starts** in any run whose settings file does not carry
`tour_seen`, so a probe run against a fresh config directory will have it on screen for the first
second and a half — and that start *writes* `tour_seen` to whichever config directory the run is
using, which is why the second run against the same one reads `auto=0`.
- `UDPSCOPE_PROBE_DEFAULTS_MS` — opens **Calibrate** and reads every spin button in it and in the
trigger panel: `[defaults] calibrate: 1 0 model=1 0 | trigger: 0.001 0.002 0 0.001 0 50 0.01`. A
`GtkSpinButton` starts at its range's *minimum*, so a `-1e12` here is an unseeded button the