feat!: bind OVOSSkill.gui to ovos-gui-api-client

[JarbasAl]

Bind OVOSSkill.gui to the standalone ovos-gui-api-client

Part of the GUI rework. The skill-side GUIInterface has been
extracted from ovos-bus-client into the standalone ovos-gui-api-client
package. This PR points workshop at it.

Changes

• skills/ovos.py + app.py: import GUIInterface from ovos_gui_api_client
  (was ovos_bus_client.apis.gui).
• SkillGUI.__init__: drop the obsolete ui_directories argument — skills no
  longer ship QML, so there are no UI directories to locate. Removes the
  get_ui_directories import.
• _init_skill_gui: drop the explicit setup_default_handlers() call; the new
  GUIInterface wires its default handlers in __init__.
• pyproject.toml: ovos-gui-api-client>=0.1.0,<1.0.0.

Tests

test/unittests/test_gui_rebind.py — 5 tests: workshop imports the api-client
interface, SkillGUI subclasses it, constructs without ui_directories,
show_text() emits gui.page.show(SYSTEM_text), and the no-bus contract.

CI / dependency note

ovos-gui-api-client is now published on PyPI (0.1.0) — the git-ref
pre_install_pip / explicit git-install CI step has been dropped in favor of
the normal versioned dependency.

2026-07-24 rebase onto dev

Rebased onto current dev (post #431 INTENT-4 producer, #483/#485/#486
resource-shim + gate rewrite, #480 EnclosureAPI→ovos-gui-api-client import).
One real conflict, in pyproject.toml: dev's #480 had already added
ovos-gui-api-client>=0.1.0,<1.0.0 for EnclosureAPI; kept dev's (published)
version bound and updated the comment to cover both EnclosureAPI and
GUIInterface. skills/ovos.py auto-merged cleanly (dev's EnclosureAPI
import + this PR's GUIInterface import coexist). Dropped the now-unneeded
git-ref CI install (package is on PyPI as of 0.1.0) in a follow-up commit.

Full local test suite: 558 passed, 2 known-failing (pre-existing on bare
dev, unrelated to this PR: test_inline_vocab_refs::test_padacioso_raw_reference_is_rejected
and test_decorators::TestKillableIntents::test_get_response, the latter only
fails when unittests+end2end run together — test-order pollution, reproduced
on bare dev too).

Depends on: ovos-gui-api-client#2 (merged, released as 0.1.0). Draft until reviewed.

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