fix: flag a saved draft seen so it is not tagged unread

DraftStore::write() was called with "D", and it uses the flag string
verbatim, so every draft this application wrote landed as :2,D. With
maildir.synchronize_flags on, notmuch tags any message lacking the S
flag `unread`, and a draft the user authored is seen by definition.

The symptom heals itself: the next sync of that folder round-trips the
file, adds S, and the tag goes away. Only the newest draft in a folder
that has not synced since shows it, which is why it read as
intermittent and why measuring an older draft finds nothing wrong.

TestComposeWindow::aSavedDraftIsFlaggedSeen() asserts both flags on the
written filename, verified failing first against "D".

TestMainWindow::anAutosaveWritesADraftAndClearsTheDirtyFlag() asserted
endsWith(":2,D"), pinning the whole flag set where its own comment said
the point was the draft flag "not left bare", so it failed against the
corrected behaviour. It checks for D within the flag set now.

Also reconciles the backlog with the user's notes: records the
forwarded-HTML defect as item 171, closes item 169 (shipped last
session, its row still read open and its section was still in the open
file), and records this fix as item 172.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AtUzfNjMD8fiYfamDd3ywW

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diff --git a/docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-03-post-0.1.0-usability-closed.md b/docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-03-post-0.1.0-usability-closed.md
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@@ -8708,3 +8708,86 @@ Read-only, per the constraint above. The dialog's height is sized to its
 content; that is a hand test, since the offscreen platform returns an
 identical frame either way.
 
+
+## 169. A card shows the account only as a bar, with no fade and no avatar
+
+**Observed (user, from the notes):** "the left border of a card expresses the
+account the mail belongs to. the background color of the card should fade left
+to right from the account color to the current background color we are using (or
+to transparent to work both in light and dark themes). On the left we should
+leave room for an account avatar (a squircle), for now it could be extracted
+from the sender name "From: john doe" becomes "JD" in the avatar. As soon as we
+include khard (or some other vcard provider/manager) we will switch to images if
+the corresponding vCard has one."
+
+**Cause (verified in the code):** not a defect. Half of it shipped. The account
+colour is drawn as a solid bar down the left edge, `CardLayout::accentRect`
+placed by `CardLayout`, filled by `CardDelegate::paint()` with
+`CardDelegate::accentLineColour()`. There is no gradient anywhere on a card, and
+nothing draws an avatar: `CardLayout` reserves no rect for one, so the geometry
+would have to grow before the painting could.
+
+**Approach.** Two separable pieces, and the avatar is the one that changes the
+layout.
+
+- The fade is a `QLinearGradient` fill over the card rect, from the accent
+  colour to the pane's background. `accentLineColour()` already records why
+  blending toward the background is wrong for a CHIP; a card's background is
+  exactly where such a blend belongs, so the constraint does not carry over.
+  Both themes come free if the far stop is the palette's own base rather than
+  a literal.
+- The avatar needs a rect in `CardLayout`, which is where it becomes testable
+  without a painter, and it shifts `contentLeft` for every card. The initials
+  come from the display name already carried on the summary; a sender with no
+  display name (an address only) needs an answer before this is built.
+
+**Constraints.**
+
+- The vCard half is blocked on item 72, which is itself unspecified. Build the
+  initials only; do not design the image path in advance.
+- A gradient behind the text has to keep the text readable at the left edge in
+  both themes, which is the same failure mode `accentLineColour()` guards
+  against on a dark palette.
+- This is a looks question, so it is settled by the user looking at it rather
+  than by a test: assert the geometry in `CardLayout`, and hand the appearance
+  over per `tests-only-for-measurable-things`.
+
+## 172. A draft this application writes is tagged `unread`
+
+**Observed (user, 2026-08-27):** a draft they had edited was sitting in the
+Unread view. Reported first as "in the inbox view", corrected to Unread.
+
+**Cause (measured, 2026-08-27).** `ComposeWindow::saveDraftNow()` called
+`DraftStore::write(folder, bytes, "D", ...)`, and `DraftStore::write()` uses
+the flag string verbatim, so every draft this application wrote landed as
+`:2,D`. `maildir.synchronize_flags` is on, and notmuch tags any message
+lacking the `S` (seen) flag `unread`. A draft the user authored is seen by
+definition, so the tag was wrong the moment the file was written.
+
+**Why it looked intermittent, which is the part worth keeping.** The symptom
+heals itself: the next mbsync of that folder round-trips the file, adds `S`,
+and the tag goes away. On the developer's own mail two drafts written two
+minutes apart differed only in whether their folder had synced afterwards:
+one account's drafts folder had synced the next morning and its file read
+`,DS`, while the other's had last synced two minutes after the write and read
+`,D`. So only the newest draft in a folder that has not synced since shows
+it, and an investigation that measures an older draft finds nothing wrong.
+
+**A measurement trap sat in front of this and cost the first answer.**
+`notmuch search --output=tags` reports the union over a THREAD. A reply-draft
+attached to an inbox message therefore reads `draft inbox unread` while no
+single message carries both, which is the same union recorded for
+`ThreadSummary::tags` under item 110. The first pass here read that union as
+a draft carrying `inbox` and concluded there was no defect at all. Measure
+drafts with `--output=messages`; item 164's evidence is a thread-level
+reading and should be re-measured before it is worked on.
+
+**Fixed** by passing `"DS"`. `TestComposeWindow::aSavedDraftIsFlaggedSeen()`
+asserts both flags on the written filename, verified failing first (`got D`).
+
+`TestMainWindow::anAutosaveWritesADraftAndClearsTheDirtyFlag()` had to be
+repaired in the same commit: it asserted `endsWith(":2,D")`, pinning the whole
+flag set when its own comment said the point was the draft flag "not left
+bare". It therefore failed against the corrected behaviour. An
+over-specified assertion of this shape blocks the fix rather than the bug.
+