Merge branch 'card-list': the thread pane as a list of cards

Replaces the five-column grid with a single column of three-line cards. Item 53
recorded that the columns, not the cues drawn inside them, were what made the
list read as a table of records; item 20 had already shipped finished, tested
and green and been rejected on sight for exactly that reason.

A card is sender and date, subject with the flag, attachment and reply-count
marks, and tags, at one uniform height. Replies indent under a continuous spine
and show only the tags their thread does not carry. The account colour runs down
the card's left edge, replacing the chip that used to eat a third of every
subject line, with matching swatches in the account dropdown. Sorting newest or
oldest first is new and remembered.

Closes items 20, 51, 53 and 60.

The four defects that mattered were all found by rendering cards to an image and
looking at them, with the suite green through every one: a date clipped on unread
cards because bold is wider than the font the layout measured, an accent bar
painted in a colour identical to the background, an expander pill in a palette
role a theme had made equal to Base, and three separate faults from trusting
notmuch's reply depth to mean structure when it only means how notmuch happened
to thread the mail.

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+/*
+ * qtmaildir - a Qt6 mail client for notmuch-indexed Maildirs
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 Danilo M. <danix@danix.xyz>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "tagchip.h"
+
+/// Paints a whole card: three lines, all of it, including the tag chips.
+///
+/// It replaces both SubjectDelegate and ThreadListView::paintEvent. The view
+/// used to paint the tag strip because a delegate cannot paint outside its
+/// column and the strip spanned all five; with one column there is nothing to
+/// span, so the strip comes home to the delegate and the view stops painting
+/// entirely. That removes the two failure modes CLAUDE.md records for the
+/// strip, a deleted row cut in half and every other row showing a bare stripe,
+/// both of which existed because the view had to re-honour alternating
+/// colours, the selection and BackgroundRole across cells it did not own.
+///
+/// Inherits RowStyleDelegate for its one job, which still matters: Qt resolves
+/// Qt::ForegroundRole into the palette's Text roles and then prefers those over
+/// HighlightedText, so the read/unread dimming would otherwise win on a
+/// selected row and land as grey on the highlight colour.
+class CardDelegate : public RowStyleDelegate
+{
+    Q_OBJECT
+public:
+    using RowStyleDelegate::RowStyleDelegate;
+
+    void paint(QPainter *painter, const QStyleOptionViewItem &option,
+               const QModelIndex &index) const override;
+    QSize sizeHint(const QStyleOptionViewItem &option,
+                   const QModelIndex &index) const override;
+
+    /// The expander's rect for a row, so the VIEW can hit-test a click without
+    /// duplicating the layout. The delegate draws it and the view owns the
+    /// click, because a delegate gets no click of its own without an editor.
+    static QRect expanderRectFor(const QStyleOptionViewItem &option,
+                                 const QModelIndex &index);
+
+    /// The colour the accent bar is painted in: the account's own, undiluted.
+    ///
+    /// Blending it toward the palette's Base was tried first, at the 0.35
+    /// weight threadLineColour() uses, and produced an INVISIBLE bar on a dark
+    /// theme: against a Base of (0.169, 0.169, 0.169) it landed at (0.18, 0.22,
+    /// 0.26), which is the background. The weight is a fraction OF THE ACCOUNT
+    /// COLOUR, so a low one keeps the background rather than the hue.
+    ///
+    /// An account colour is already chosen to be a chip's fill with legible
+    /// text on top, so it is muted to begin with; three pixels of a muted
+    /// colour is nothing. Nothing is drawn on this bar, so it needs none of the
+    /// contrast that choice was made for. The SPINE is where the muting belongs
+    /// and is blended in paint(): it runs the full height of every reply in an
+    /// expansion and has to be followable without competing with the senders.
+    ///
+    /// Falls back to threadLineColour() for a thread with no account tag.
+    static QColor accentLineColour(const QColor &accountColour);
+};