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2026-08-08feat(ui): scope actions to the selected row kind and name itDanilo M.5-28/+431
tagSelected resolved rows to threads with threadAt(index.row()), which is wrong for a message row: a child's row number indexes its siblings, so acting on a reply tagged whichever thread sat at that position in the list. It now routes through ThreadListModel::scopeFor, and a message row's change is sent as message ids down applyTags with its own MessageTagCommand for undo. MessageTagCommand stores message ids where ThreadTagCommand stores thread ids, and that difference is the point rather than an inconsistency: re-resolving the thread on undo would restore tags across every sibling the action never touched. sendMessageTagChange deliberately skips the optimistic model update. applyTagChange is keyed by thread and would repaint the whole row as though every message in it had changed, which for a one-message edit is a lie the user watches correct itself on the next query. It keeps the two things that are NOT optional: the edited-account set, resolved through the containing thread since the account is a property of the thread, and holding the edit when a sync holds notmuch's write lock, since the worker's read-write open blocks rather than failing. The scope is now stated before an action and after it, naming both the message count and whether a whole thread went. This is what stands in for the confirmation dialog CLAUDE.md rules out: undo is the safety net, and undo is only usable if the user can tell that something larger than they meant has just happened. Selecting a single message reports no count at all, since reading one message is not a bulk action. A mutation that routed message rows down the thread path SURVIVED the whole suite: undo depth and status text are identical either way while every sibling gets tagged. anActionOnAMessageRowTagsThatMessageNotTheThread exists because that gap was found, and asserts on the ids actually sent. anActionOnAThreadRowSaysItHitTheWholeThread reads the status bar BEFORE draining the event loop. This binary has no worker, backlog item 36, so the queued write reaches a database that has never heard of the thread and answers with errorOccurred, which overwrites the status bar: draining first asserts on that error and fails against correct code.
2026-08-08feat(ui): render a single message when its row is selectedDanilo M.6-0/+227
loadMessage queries by id: and returns one MessageRef, always matched, since the user asked for that message by clicking its row and a stub would answer the wrong question. An unknown id emits an empty vector rather than an error: a stale row after a reindex is an ordinary race, not a failure worth the status bar. The signal fires even when empty so the UI handler runs instead of waiting for a reply that never comes. The branch in onThreadSelected is placed BEFORE threadAt(), which is the whole trap. threadAt takes a top-level row number and a child's row number indexes its siblings, so handing a message row's number to it loads whichever thread happens to sit at that position. Mutation-checked: with the branch disabled the test reports thread 't1' for a reply belonging to 't2', a wrong answer plausible enough to survive review. m_currentMessageId and m_currentThreadId are mutually exclusive and each clears the other, so a queued reply can tell which kind of selection it belongs to. onMessageLoaded carries a third guard onThreadLoaded does not need: a reply landing after the selection moved to a thread row would render one message where the conversation belongs. No mark-read timer for a message row in this pass. Marking one message of a thread read is a per-message tag write and the pending-edit map is keyed by thread; item 28 is the record of what happens when that count goes wrong.
2026-08-08feat(ui): mark replies with a thread line, a tint and dimmer textDanilo M.5-6/+311
Indentation alone still read as a table, which was the user's original complaint about the whole item. Three cues now say the rows belong to the thread above them: a spine down the left of the expanded block with a stub out to each reply, a background tint, and text a size down and undimmed only when unread. Both colours are mixed from the palette rather than fixed, the same rule readColour follows: a tint that reads as grouping on a light theme is invisible or muddy on a dark one. The tint is deliberately near the threshold of noticing, since it sits beside the deleted and spam fills, which carry real meaning and must stay the loudest thing in the list. The spine is accumulated across the visible reply rows and drawn once after the loop. Drawn per row it left a gap at every row boundary and read as a column of dashes rather than as the structure holding the block together. Two bugs fixed here, both mine, both from the previous commit: Clicking the expander did nothing. setRootIsDecorated(false), needed to stop the style painting its own indicator under ours, also removed the style's hit area, so the glyph rendered perfectly and was inert. ThreadListView handles the press itself now, over the strip the delegate reserves, leaving the rest of the subject cell to select the row. Every click then expanded rather than toggling, because isExpanded and setExpanded are keyed on column 0 and were being asked about the subject-column index, which always answers false. Visible, clickable and toggling are three separate properties and a test for one passes against the other two being broken: the pixel test proved the triangle was drawn while it could not be clicked, and the first click test proved it opened while it could never close. The test now clicks twice and asserts open then closed. replyRowsKeepTheirTextUnderTheThreadLine covers the other trap. paintEvent runs AFTER the cells, so the first version of the tint filled the whole reply row and erased the sender and subject the delegate had just drawn: zero surviving text pixels, a block of blank tinted rows. The fill and the stub stay in the band below the text, where the tag strip lives on thread rows.
2026-08-08fix(ui): make the expander visible and the reply indent readableDanilo M.7-5/+231
Both were reported from the running application after the previous commit claimed them working, and the tests that passed could not see either fault. The expander took four attempts, each of which looked right in code: - QTreeView::drawBranches is the documented hook and does not work here. It runs BEFORE the row's cells, so with the expander on a content column the delegate's own background paints over it. A 60-pixel triangle survived as 8, indistinguishable from the theme's near-invisible dot. - Sizing the glyph from the row rather than the branch rect put most of it outside that rect. - Moving it into SubjectDelegate but calling it from only the no-chip branch left every real row without one, since every real row has an account chip and takes the other branch. It is now drawn by the delegate, which owns the cell and paints after the background, from both branches, with setRootIsDecorated(false) so the style does not draw its dot underneath. The indent was 20px and invisible for a reason the geometry could not show: a thread row draws an account chip before its subject and a reply row does not, so a reply's text already starts about a chip's width LEFT of its thread's. The indent has to beat that before any nesting reads at all, hence 72px. The indent test asserted on visualRect, which was correctly indented the whole time, and so passed against a build with no visible nesting. It now measures where the TEXT lands, accounting for the chip, and fails at 20px. The new expander test counts painted pixels of the glyph colour against a control row with no replies, and fails when the call is dropped from either branch.
2026-08-08feat(ui): load a thread's replies when its row is expandedDanilo M.5-0/+127
Replies are fetched on expansion rather than with the query: walking the reply tree of every thread in a 10k-thread result would cost more than the query and almost none of it would be looked at. hasChildren is what makes that lazy loading work, and its absence would have shipped the feature unreachable. rowCount is 0 until the worker has walked the thread, so a view left to infer the expander from rowCount alone draws none, the user can never expand, and the replies are never requested. It answers from the summary's totalCount before loading and from the children afterwards, so a thread whose count included duplicates stops offering an expander that opens onto nothing. onThreadTreeLoaded reads the thread id from the reply rather than remembering it from the request. Two expansions can be in flight at once, and pairing them by order would attach one thread's replies to the other.
2026-08-08refactor(view): make ThreadListView a QTreeView for message rowsDanilo M.5-85/+373
The strip survived the port because every geometry call it needs exists on both classes. What did not survive is anything keyed on a row NUMBER: a tree numbers rows per parent, so row 0 exists once per expanded thread and the old flat 0..N walk would paint the first thread's strip over every one of them. The walk now goes by index, and the alternating colour follows visual position rather than index.row() for the same reason. QTableView::isRowSelected(int) has no QTreeView equivalent; isSelected on the index replaces it. MainWindow loses verticalHeader and selectRow, so row height comes from uniformRowHeights and three helpers replace the row arithmetic. next_thread and prev_thread now resolve the containing thread first: in a tree current.row() + 1 is the next SIBLING, which under an expanded thread is the next reply, not the next thread. Two test defects found by mutation and worth recording, since both produced a green suite over a broken assertion: The indent test asserted on column 0. A QTreeView indents only the column holding the expander, verified against Qt 6.11: with setTreePosition(4), column 0 reports the same left edge for a thread and its reply while column 4 reports 420 against 440. It was failing against a correctly indented tree. The strip test passed with the view's skip deleted, because the real model already returns no pills for a child row, so the view's guard was never the thing under test. It now runs against a stub model that hands pills to every row, which leaves the view's skip as the only thing that can keep replies clean. That rewrite then failed for a third reason: without the delegates MainWindow installs, rows take the default height, the band is measured against SubjectDelegate::rowHeightFor and overflows into the row below, and the thread's own strip paints across the reply. Reads exactly like a missing skip and is not one.
2026-08-08feat(model): resolve action scope from the selected row kindDanilo M.4-0/+153
ActionScope is what an action is about to touch, resolved from the selection in one place so no call site reinvents the mapping. A thread root contributes the whole thread, a message row contributes one message, and messageCount is what the status bar reports. The count comes from totalCount, not from the loaded children. A thread that was never expanded still has all of its messages, and counting only the rows that happen to be on screen would understate what the action does: mutation-checked, and the wrong version reports 1 message where 7 are about to be tagged. A mixed selection is honoured as given rather than escalated to thread scope or narrowed to message scope. Silently widening it would defeat the reason the scope is shown at all.
2026-08-08feat(model): expose a thread's replies as child rowsDanilo M.3-5/+268
setThreadMessages drops the depth-0 message: it is the thread's first message and the root row already stands for it. Keeping it would show a thread of seven as one root and seven children, contradicting the reply count the row advertises. Calling again replaces rather than appends, so a thread reloaded after a sync does not list its replies twice. A message row reports its own sender and subject, not the thread's. That is the mistake worth guarding: the thread's author summary usually contains the first sender too, so reading it renders something plausible for the root's own reply and wrong for every other one. Mutation-checked, and the wrong version returns 'Alice' where 'Bob' belongs. Child rows carry no tag pills. The strip is a row-wide band of the thread's tags; one under each reply would stripe the list and repeat identical tags down the expansion.
2026-08-08refactor(model): convert ThreadListModel to QAbstractItemModelDanilo M.3-14/+136
A table cannot indent or expand, so message rows need a tree. This task changes only the base class and the index plumbing: no children are produced yet, so the 30 pre-existing tests in test_threadlistmodel are the regression net proving a thread row still behaves exactly as it did, and QAbstractItemModelTester checks the index/parent round trip a hand-written assertion would miss. Two things the table version could leave wrong and a tree cannot. columnCount returned 0 for a valid parent, which would give message rows no columns and render them blank. And rowCount now answers only for column 0, since a tree takes one set of children per row and offering them under every column draws an expander in each. The model stays two levels deep even though replies carry a reply depth of their own. The visual nesting past the first level comes from that depth, not from further parent-child structure, so no index calculation has to recurse.
2026-08-08feat(worker): load a thread as a reply tree with per-message depthDanilo M.5-0/+165
loadThread could not be extended to do this. It walks notmuch_query_search_messages, and a message obtained that way returns NULL from notmuch_message_get_replies (notmuch.h:1617-1628), so that walk cannot produce reply depth at all. The tree comes from notmuch_thread_get_toplevel_messages instead, and the pane keeps the flat list it wants. walkReplies takes raw notmuch_message_t*, against this file's rule that every handle is RAII-owned. Messages reached through a thread are freed with it (notmuch.h:1637), so an NmMessage wrapper would destroy memory the thread frees again. The NmThread in the caller is what keeps them alive. Every message in the thread gets a node regardless of the query: the list is where the reply count is read, and hiding unmatched replies would make that count disagree with the rows under it. Both tests mutation-checked. Flattening depth fails the depth assertion, and skipping the thread walk fails it too, so neither passes against the two mistakes the notmuch API invites.
2026-08-08feat(types): add MessageNode for message rows in the thread listDanilo M.2-0/+57
A message row has to be drawn without opening the message, so it needs sender, subject and date. MessageRef carries none of them: it exists for rendering a thread into the pane and holds only id, path, tags and matched. depth defaults to 0, the thread's first message, which the root row stands for rather than a child row. threadId is carried so a batch of nodes names the thread it belongs to without the caller tracking it alongside.
2026-08-08docs(item-20): specify message rows in the thread list and plan the workDanilo M.2-10/+1603
The item sat as 'open, unspecified' since 2026-08-04, recording only that the user's mental model differed from what was built. Described now from three screenshots plus four decisions: the left pane gains message rows, the root row IS the thread's first message, replies indent by true reply depth, and action scope follows the selected row kind. No confirmation dialog, per this project's standing rule. The hazard the design introduces is ambiguity rather than destruction, since deleted is a tag and every mutation is invertible, so the scope is named in the status bar before and after the action instead. Sized L, the largest item in the backlog and the first to warrant a branch. The plan records four API facts verified against the installed headers, each contradicting the obvious approach: replies are unreachable from a query walk, thread-derived messages must not be RAII-wrapped, QTreeView lacks isRowSelected(int), and a tree numbers rows per parent.
2026-08-07docs: record that QString::arg does not collapse %% into %Danilo M.1-0/+13
printf does, and the habit transfers silently. In generated CSS it is quietly destructive: a percentage written %% reaches the browser malformed, and a browser drops that one declaration and renders the rest, so the pane still paints and nothing looks broken. The 0.11.0 placeholder lost its mask, its glow and both radial gradients this way. Records the review lesson alongside it, which generalizes further than the rule: a geometry probe endorsed that layout because it measured only properties carrying no percentage. A probe that cannot see the thing that breaks reports success forever. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07feat(sync): sync only the accounts with unsynced editsDanilo M.15-8/+353
A sync ran mbsync -a regardless of what changed, so tagging mail in one account fetched all of them. The account set was not a parameter anywhere on the path: MailSync::start() took no arguments and the script hardcoded -a, so nothing between a tag edit and mbsync carried which account changed. Track which accounts have edits and pass their mbsync channels through to the script, which now takes channel names and falls back to -a when given none. An empty set means all accounts, per the request: a sync with nothing pending is a fetch, and narrowing that to wherever the last edit landed would quietly stop collecting mail everywhere else. The channel is a new optional per-account key rather than the section key. The two names genuinely diverge, because a QSettings section key may carry dots that the channel does not, and mbsync treats an unknown channel as fatal rather than skipping it, so key-as-channel would fail those accounts' syncs outright rather than degrade. It defaults to the key, so accounts whose two names already agree need no config change. The edited-account set is deliberately not netted the way the pending-edit map is: that map tracks the index, where a tag removed and re-added leaves nothing outstanding, while this tracks the mail store, where both writes have already renamed files that mbsync still has to propagate. It is also snapshotted before flushHeldEdits(), which inserts into it synchronously rather than on a queued reply, so a successful sync cannot clear accounts whose edits it never carried. Closes item 49. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07release: 0.11.0v0.11.0Danilo M.2-1/+33
The empty message pane now carries the application's own identity and the counts worth knowing, and Escape finally does what it does everywhere else. Collects the placeholder pane, the Maildir overview, the Escape change, and the thread-list work that had been sitting unreleased since 0.10.0.
2026-08-07feat(ui): add a Maildir overview under HelpDanilo M.8-1/+375
Nothing in the UI reported database-level facts: every query gave a thread count for that query, and nothing said how much mail there is overall. A dialog under Help now shows messages, threads and tags from notmuch, plus the account list from config, since notmuch does not model accounts at all. A separate worker call rather than a reuse of requestCounts, which counts threads to match the row count of a query. This counts messages, which is what a user means by "how much mail is in here". The test pins 4 messages in 3 threads against the fixture and fails if they are ever made equal, so routing both through one count cannot pass unnoticed. Every field starts at -1 and renders as "unknown" when notmuch could not answer it. Printing 0 would say the Maildir is empty, and telling someone their mail is gone is the worst way to report an index that failed to open. The dialog opens showing "Counting..." rather than blocking, since counting every message is not free on a large database. That makes two lifetimes matter: the reply can arrive after the dialog is closed, so the label is a QPointer, and the dialog can be closed and reopened while a count runs, so a generation counter drops the older answer. The test drains DeferredDelete before firing the late reply, because close() deletes through deleteLater and without that the dangling case is never actually reached.
2026-08-07feat(ui): make Escape deselect the row as well as blank the paneDanilo M.4-3/+201
Blanking the pane while leaving the row highlighted reads as half an action, and deselecting is what Escape means nearly everywhere else. The user asked for two actions rather than a changed one, so clear_pane keeps its behaviour and moves to Shift+Esc; clear_selection takes Escape and does both. Shift+Esc rather than unbound because every action carries a default and a test enforces it. Clearing the selection re-adopts the thread it just cleared, unless done in exactly the right way. clearSelection() leaves currentIndex() valid, so onSelectionChanged takes its "one or fewer rows" branch, sees a current row whose id differs from m_currentThreadId, and calls onThreadSelected for it. Clearing the selection before blanking lets that run while the id still matches, so nothing reloads, and clearing current stops a later collapse-to-one-row reaching the same row. All four arrangements were tried; only this one passes. The first version of the test could not distinguish any of them. It asserted showingPlaceholder(), which passes regardless because this fixture has no worker, so loadThread never replies and the pane is never repainted. currentThreadId() and currentIndex() are observable without one, and asserting those is what made the test discriminate.
2026-08-07test: pin the offscreen platform, and let the popup test check its own geometryDanilo M.3-1/+74
ctest sets no QT_QPA_PLATFORM, so the suite's verdict depended on how it was invoked: green for anyone exporting `offscreen` by hand, red under ctest in the same tree. That cost a wrong diagnosis before the cause was found, an unrelated change blamed for a failure that reproduces on a clean checkout. The Wayland warning blames a missing transientParent, which is misleading. Instrumenting the test showed the popup viewport arriving as 1278x0. The zero height is why the grab returned a null pixmap, but the width is the worse half: this test sizes a line edit to 550px and exists to prove a description survives a popup that size, so a working grab would have measured a popup twice that wide and passed while proving nothing. Offscreen gives 548x40, the geometry the test means. Pinning the platform is therefore the correct fix rather than an opt-out. It is set in add_qtmaildir_test so it covers every test, including the two others that create widgets, and anything added later. The test now also asserts its own geometry, since CMake only governs ctest and the binary is often run directly. A bare !shot.isNull() said nothing useful; it now reports "popup viewport has no height (1278x0)" or names a popup too wide to be the case under test. Both guards were verified by mutation.
2026-08-07docs: record four items the usage notes had and the backlog did notDanilo M.1-0/+168
The notes are the upstream source and keep growing, so the backlog goes stale on its own between sessions. This pass found three unrecorded entries, each with its cause verified in the code rather than copied from the note: - 49, sync always runs every account regardless of what changed. The account set is not a parameter anywhere on the path, and the shipped script hardcodes the whole-store sweep. Needs a decision first about whether an account key is also an mbsync channel name. - 50, Esc blanks the pane but leaves the row selected. Built as specified by item 32; the user now wants both, as two actions rather than one. - 51, clicking a subject scrolls the list sideways. Ordinary view auto-scroll, cosmetic. 52 came from the work itself rather than from the notes: the suite's verdict depends on how it is invoked. test_querycompleter grabs a popup and Wayland refuses a grabbing popup for a window that has never received input, so it fails under ctest and passes when run with the offscreen platform by hand. It cost a wrong diagnosis on the day it was found, an unrelated change blamed for a failure that reproduces on a clean checkout, because the comparison was run under two different plugins. Recorded with the transientParent fix preferred over forcing the platform, since a test that runs under the real plugin is worth more than one that opts out.
2026-08-07feat(ui): fill the blank message pane with a branded placeholderDanilo M.14-5/+982
An empty right pane said nothing, and multi-select made it a routine sight. It now carries the wordmark, thread counts that run their query when clicked, and a sync line that appears only when something needs attention. Rendered into the existing web view as a third document shape, so there is one document path and one set of security rules. The brand palette is a deliberate exception to deriving colours from the desktop theme, since a logo is brand rather than chrome; the theme still picks which of the two sets is used. Counts refresh when the pane is about to show rather than in the background: one goes stale the moment a tag is edited, and refreshing one nobody is looking at is work for nothing. A generation counter discards a superseded reply, and a late answer cannot repaint over an opened thread. The helper lines are real links because JavaScript is off in this profile. The handler is gated on the placeholder actually being displayed, so the same URL inside a message body is dropped: a stranger's mail must not drive the thread list, even to run a harmless query. Three defects found while building, all silent: - Every CSS percentage was invalid. QString::arg does not collapse "%%" into "%", so the document carried "50%%" and the browser dropped each declaration holding one, disabling the mask, the glow and both radial gradients while still rendering something plausible. Substitution is by named token now, which cannot collide with a percent sign. - A geometry probe endorsed the layout while that was live, because it measured only properties without percentages. - The font test passed against a build with one face missing, since the other satisfied both of its checks on its own. The mockup's light values needed correcting against a real pane: the grid vanished at a 2% luminance step on white, and the glow subtracts light there rather than adding it, washing the pane. Strength only, not hue.
2026-08-07docs: record what item 30 was specified asDanilo M.1-0/+51
The blank-pane item was designed with the user this session but not built, and the decisions would otherwise have to be re-derived. The important correction is to the item's own source material: it is built from the user's HTML mockups, not from the PNGs this section originally recorded. Those PNGs were rendered from that HTML, and it ships a complete brand palette for both light and dark. Two parts of the mockup cannot survive the port, and both are deliberate properties of this application rather than problems to fix: its Google Fonts import is blocked by the interceptor, and its layout script cannot run because JavaScript is off. Also records that the selected-thread count, which this section called the half with real value, was rejected by the user on the grounds that the status bar already shows it. The helpers are unread, flagged and inbox counts plus a sync line that appears only when something needs attention. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07build: bundle the fonts the placeholder pane will needDanilo M.5-0/+214
Groundwork for item 30, the blank right pane. Nothing references these yet; the pane itself is the next piece of work. The pane is drawn from the user's own HTML mockup, which sets its wordmark in Oxanium and its text in IBM Plex Sans and pulls both from Google Fonts. That @import cannot work here: the web view's interceptor blocks every request by default, deliberately, and neither font is installed on the development machine either. Shipping them is what makes the pane look the same on every machine. Both are SIL OFL 1.1, which permits redistribution and is compatible with the GPL, and each carries its licence text beside it. The README records the pairing. Both are subsets, since they are embedded into the rendered document as data URIs and the full families would dwarf the page using them. Oxanium is instanced to weight 800 and cut to the nine characters of the wordmark: 43K to 1.2K. IBM Plex Sans is cut to Latin-1 plus common punctuation rather than to the exact strings in use: 525K to 13K. The wider cut is deliberate, because that font carries interface text that will change, and a subset matching only today's wording would break silently the moment a string is edited. Coverage of both was verified against the strings they have to draw. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07docs: record how rendering probes mislead, and ThreadListViewDanilo M.1-4/+42
A session was spent chasing a defect that did not exist, because three separate rendering probes returned confidently wrong results and each was believed until contradicted. The specific failure modes are worth recording, since the next attempt will otherwise rediscover them: counting lit pixels cannot tell bold from regular in either direction, viewport()->render() returns blank images in several ordinary situations, and a "saturated pixel" threshold catches the antialiased edge of the selection highlight and passes whatever the code does. The bug that started it was not in the code at all: the desktop's Qt font was configured Bold in qt6ct, so every row rendered bold and setBold() changed nothing. Also records ThreadListView in the architecture diagram, with the three consequences of painting a row-wide strip in a per-cell view that are easiest to undo by accident. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07feat(ui): show each thread's tags under its rowDanilo M.12-101/+836
The thread list was uniform and cramped: every row one line tall, with nothing to say what a thread was about before opening it. Rows are now roughly double height, carrying a strip of tag chips beneath the text, with alternating row colours and a star column for flagged threads beside the existing paperclip. The strip is painted by the VIEW rather than by a delegate, which is why ThreadListView exists. A delegate is handed one cell's rectangle and cannot paint outside its column, so a strip drawn from the subject column stops at that column's edge, losing the last tags of a well-tagged thread, and starts at its left edge, putting the chips under the subject instead of under the row. Tags the row already shows another way are left out: inbox as structure, unread as the dimming, flagged as the star, attachment as the paperclip, and the account as the chip in the subject cell. Sorted, since notmuch's order is not guaranteed stable and a row whose chips reordered between repaints would flicker. Six defects were introduced and fixed on the way here, all of them one consequence: a QTableView paints per cell, and a row-wide strip is not a cell. SubjectDelegate installed view-wide drew the account chip into every column, since AccountLabelRole belongs to the row; it is split into RowStyleDelegate for every column and SubjectDelegate for the subject alone, with a Q_ASSERT guarding that. Row height returned from sizeHint did nothing, because a table takes one height per row. The strip painted from x=0 over the marker columns, via a protected viewportMargins() that returns 0. Measuring the text band and the strip with one font put the pills over the date. Alternating colours and the selection are per-cell too, so the band showed bare viewport background until the view filled it, honouring the model's own BackgroundRole first so a deleted row is not cut in half. And that fill spanned the full width, cutting the centred marker glyphs at their midpoint. Closes item 5. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07fix(ui): tell read threads from unread without relying on boldDanilo M.9-17/+287
Bold was unread's only cue, and it renders identically to regular on the user's system: confirmed by eye against a bare QTableView holding a plain QStandardItemModel, with no code from this project involved. The fault is in Qt or fontconfig, below this application, and nothing in the model could ever have reached it. Read and unread mail looked exactly alike. The emphasis is inverted instead. Unread rows keep the palette's own text colour and read rows are dimmed toward the background, so the cue rides on Qt::ForegroundRole, which the delegate already honours, and costs no column. It also suits the real ratio, measured at 99 unread against 4220 read: dimming the bulk is calmer than highlighting it. The dim colour is derived from the palette, never hardcoded, per the rule item 12 established. Bold is kept for systems where it works, but nothing depends on it now. That exposed a second defect, visible the moment it shipped. Qt resolves ForegroundRole into the palette and then prefers it over HighlightedText, so a model-supplied colour wins on a SELECTED row too. The dim is blended against the unselected background, so a selected read row painted grey on the selection colour, near unreadable. SubjectDelegate::initStyleOption now reverses that, and the delegate is installed view-wide rather than on the subject column alone, so every column gets the same handling instead of three of them keeping Qt's ordering. The guarding tests state the property rather than the mechanism: strip the font from the model's answer and the two states must still differ. A test asserting only that bold is set passes on a system where bold paints like regular, which is exactly how this survived. The selection test renders two rows identical but for the unread tag, selects both, and requires zero differing pixels. Part of item 5; the density work and the star column remain. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07fix(ui): the message pane follows the desktop themeDanilo M.7-19/+340
The stylesheet hardcoded #bbb, #555, #000, #666, #ddd and #4a6f8a, and set no background at all, so on a dark desktop plain-text mail rendered as black on white inside a dark window and the web view's own default showed through. The colours now come from a Palette struct derived from QPalette, and are passed into the builder rather than read from qApp inside it, so the stylesheet can be tested against a known palette with no running application. Base and Text rather than Window and WindowText: the pane is a content surface like a text edit, and on many themes those differ. The secondary colours are blends of text and background, not fixed greys. That is the part that makes it work both ways round, since a #555 chosen to read as subtle on white is nearly invisible on #2b2b2b. The quote colour keeps its hue, because "this is quoted" is carried by being a different colour rather than a dimmer one, but is pulled toward the background so it stays readable instead of glowing on dark. A sender's own HTML is deliberately left alone, and a test asserts that so it cannot drift: rewriting a sender's styling would break layouts that depend on it, and a newsletter setting a white background is entitled to stay white. This themes the plain-text render and the chrome around messages, nothing more. MessageView passes its own widget palette rather than the application's, since a style sheet or a themed parent can give the pane different colours from qApp, and re-renders on PaletteChange: the document's colours are baked into its stylesheet at build time, so unlike a widget it does not restyle itself when the desktop theme changes. The load-bearing test asserts the negative, that no hex colour appears in the style block which the palette did not supply. A test checking only that the palette's colours are present passes with a leftover literal still there, and one leftover literal is the whole defect. Confirmed by mutation. Closes item 12. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07feat(tags): mark every thread in the view read, in one undoable stepDanilo M.7-1/+311
An action removing "unread" from every thread in the current view, on the toolbar, the Message menu and Ctrl+Shift+U. It deliberately ignores the selection, which makes it the one action in the window that does, and it routes through the same funnel as every other tag change, so it is one write rather than one per thread. Disabled until the query reports its total. Threads arrive in batches, so before then the model holds only what has landed, and an action saying "all" must not silently skip the rest. A greyed control says "not yet" without needing a dialog or a stall the user cannot see. The state is also set at registration, since QAction starts enabled and a window that has not run a query has nothing to act on. Two things came out differently from the plan, both forced by existing code. It carries a default binding, because everyActionHasAShortcut requires every registered action to have one: an unbound action is unreachable from the keyboard, and that invariant is deliberate, so the action was given Ctrl+Shift+U rather than the invariant relaxed. And only the threads that are actually unread are sent, because sending the rest would inflate the pending-edit count with writes that change nothing, and the quit prompt reads that count. A view with nothing unread does nothing, pushes no command and says so: an undo entry that restores nothing is worse than none, since it absorbs a Ctrl+Z meant for the previous action. undoDepthForTesting() is new and exists for a reason worth recording: undo->isEnabled() cannot answer "was a command pushed", because the undo QAction is always enabled and tests canUndo() when triggered. The first version of the no-op test asserted on it and passed against a mutant with the unread filter removed. Closes item 43. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07feat(sync): the status bar says which account is syncingDanilo M.8-15/+560
"Syncing..." was set once and never updated, so a run that takes over a minute reported nothing about what it was doing. The original diagnosis in the backlog was half wrong, and two further wrong ones were made and discarded before the real cause: plain "mbsync -a" prints NOTHING until it exits, then a single summary line. Measured on a real run, one line at 11:11:08 then 73 within the second 11:11:33, at the end of a 46-second run. So there was no stream to read for the part of a sync that takes time. It is not buffering, so stdbuf changes nothing, and the account name is not unavailable either, which was the second wrong conclusion. mbsync -V is what changes both: it announces each channel as it reaches it, which is at once the progress and the account name originally asked for. The shipped script now passes it. SyncPhaseTracker derives a short status from the output as it streams: the channel being synced, the summary counts when mbsync ends, then the notmuch reindex. It lives beside MailSync rather than in the window so the matching rules are one testable thing, and it holds no widget. Matching is loose and case-insensitive, since the wording varies by version, and nothing in it decides success or failure: the exit status remains the only authority on that. Lines are reassembled in MainWindow before being fed, because QProcess::readAll() splits wherever it happens to and a half-line would match nothing. Every status is sanitised and truncated: the channel name comes from a config file this app does not own, and a long one must not stretch the status bar. Two defects in existing code, fixed with it. setSyncBusy(true) ran after start(), so a fast run's output arrived before the per-run reset and wiped its own phase. And a first draft deferred phases while a transient message showed, which let a "Background sync completed" message armed before the sync began suppress the whole run: a running sync's state outranks an expiring event message. Verified by replaying real captured mbsync -V output through the tracker, not only against fixtures. The MainWindow test paces its script with sleeps, since a script that prints everything at once arrives in one readyRead and makes every intermediate phase unobservable. Closes item 42. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07docs: record how to find the messages item 41 affectedDanilo M.1-1/+21
Confirmed on real mail: a message whose text/html part carries a Content-Id now renders. Item 41's status drops the caveat about the reported message not being relocated. Finding an affected message is harder than it looks, which is why the search is worth recording rather than rederiving. A Content-Id on an inline image is the common case and always worked, so a plain grep for the header returns mostly noise. The narrow case is a Content-Id in the same header block as a text/html Content-Type, which needs a small awk pass over the message files. That found 96 in one inbox, all bulk senders. Also records that file: is not a notmuch search term, so a matched path cannot be turned into a query directly; the Message-ID header is the way across to an id: query. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07fix(mime): a body part carrying a Content-Id no longer renders blankDanilo M.4-2/+60
collectParts() filed any part with a Content-Id into inlineParts and returned before the text/plain and text/html branches. Setting a Content-Id on the text/html body is legal and common in bulk-sender output, and such a message parsed with both body slots empty, so hasHtml() was false, HtmlBuilder fell through to an empty plain body, and the pane rendered nothing. Both halves of the report, the blank message and "no HTML part", came from that one ordering. A content id makes a part referenceable, not undisplayable. The two are independent. The branch now registers the part and falls through rather than returning, so the body still fills its slot. Registering first keeps a part that is both the body and a cid: target reachable under its id for any sibling referencing it. Content-Disposition is deliberately not used as the discriminator: it is absent far more often than it is correct, and a body part commonly carries none. The existing attachment check remains the only test for "not a body", and the first-one-wins isEmpty() guard still stops an inline image displacing a real body, since an image matches neither text branch. Verified against a hand-written fixture whose text/html part carries a Content-Id, asserting the body renders, the id still resolves, and the sibling image is unaffected. Load-bearing by mutation: restoring the early return fails the test. The user could not relocate the message that prompted the report, so the end-to-end path is unconfirmed. Closes item 41. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07fix(tags): the Remove field suggests only tags the selection hasDanilo M.3-3/+80
Both TagDialog fields built their completer from knownTags, the whole database's tag list, so removing a tag offered every tag in existence rather than the handful the selected threads actually carry. The candidates were already in the dialog: currentTags, used until now only to render the checkbox list. The constructor now walks two (field, vocabulary) pairs instead of two fields sharing one list, with knownTags for Add and currentTags.keys() for Remove. On a multi-thread selection that is the union, not the intersection, since removing a tag two of three threads carry is a meaningful request. The setWidget and per-token prefix machinery is untouched: these fields hold a comma-separated list, and QLineEdit::setCompleter is the trap this dialog already works around. Only the candidate list changed. Completion stays a suggestion, never a whitelist, so a tag absent from the candidates still applies. Tests type keys rather than using setText, which does not drive a completer at all. Verified load-bearing by mutation: reverting the Remove vocabulary to knownTags fails the new test. Closes item 48. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06docs: record item 48, tag removal suggests every tagDanilo M.1-0/+43
The remove field's completer is built from knownTags, the whole database's tag list, because TagDialog builds both fields' completers in one loop. Only the tags a thread already carries can be removed from it. The dialog is already given currentTags and uses it to render the existing tags, so the candidate list is in hand and this needs no new plumbing.
2026-08-06release: 0.10.0v0.10.0Danilo M.2-1/+44
Tag edits made during a background sync are held and sent when it finishes, rather than stalling the worker and freezing the message pane. Sync is one control on the toolbar instead of two that behaved differently, and the query bar gains a clear button and the saved queries beside it. Minor rather than patch: a visible control was removed, the query row was rearranged, and when a tag edit reaches the database changed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06fix(ui): one Sync control, and a query bar that looks finishedDanilo M.5-61/+216
Sync had two controls that behaved differently. The QPushButton beside the query bar cleared the log, opened the pane and disabled itself; the QAction behind the toolbar, menu and shortcut called start() and did nothing else, discarding its return value so a rejected start was silent. Worse, item 29's "disable Sync during a background sync" set the button only, so the toolbar entry stayed clickable through a cron sync and could only produce the script's EX_TEMPFAIL skip. startSync() is now the single handler behind every route in, and the enabled state lives on the QAction, which reaches the toolbar, the menu and the shortcut at once. It also reports when no sync command is configured rather than doing nothing. The QPushButton is gone. It read as a Search button given it sat beside a text field, which is the user's own observation and the reason the toolbar one survives instead. Its unavailable-command tooltip moved to the action, since that is the only thing that says why the control is dead. Removing it left the query field running flush to the window edge, so the saved-query buttons move from their own row onto the query row. The bar is now framed by the account dropdown on the left and the saved queries on the right, the empty row is gone, and the thread list gains the space. The field also gains setClearButtonEnabled, which is Qt's own themed clear icon rather than a hand-rolled button. A "Search" button was considered and rejected: Return already runs the query. No overflow handling for [queries], which is unbounded. Three entries fit; item 23 already specifies buttons-plus-menu and is where that belongs. CLAUDE.md's architecture diagram named four widget classes that have never existed, QueryBar, SavedQueryBar, HeaderWidget and AttachmentBar. The query row and the message header are built inline. Corrected, and the components that do exist but were missing from it added. Tests: the new action test was verified red first and load-bearing by mutation. The old button test is deleted rather than repointed, being an exact duplicate of it, and the unobservable-lock test now drives the action. The clear button and the row layout were confirmed by hand; no test clicks the icon, which is a mouse path. Backlog: 45 done and reclassified as a defect rather than a cosmetic redundancy, 47 added for the bar.
2026-08-06test: stop two tests depending on the machine they run onDanilo M.4-4/+85
Both are the same class of defect: a test that reads real machine state and so passes or fails on circumstance rather than on the code under test. Item 38. Every MainWindow a test builds constructed its SyncMonitor on the live /proc/locks, so a window observed the machine's actual sync state and the sync-button assertion failed whenever the user's cron sync happened to be running. Cron fires every ten minutes and a run lasts ~35s, which is roughly 6% of runs, and it read as flakiness. SyncMonitor already took an injectable locks path for exactly this; MainWindow did not expose it. It does now, as a test seam rather than a config key: /proc/locks is not something a user would set, and a wrong value silently disables background sync detection instead of failing loudly. The monitor is still constructed and started, per the item's own constraint. Only the table it reads is redirected, to an empty file in the test's own temporary directory. Item 46. uiStateSurvivesARestart asserted a 940px width, and the offscreen platform reports an 800x800 screen. restoreGeometry() clamps to the available area, so the width came back as 798 while the 620 height, which fits, restored untouched. That asymmetry was the tell that persistence was fine and the test was wrong. The size is now 640x560 and carries no meaning beyond differing from the default. Verified by reproducing the original conditions rather than by waiting for them: the suite run under flock -n /tmp/mbsync.lock fails item 38's assertion with the seam bypassed and passes with it in place, and item 46 now passes under offscreen where it failed. One dud mutation is recorded in the backlog, writing an unparseable line into the injected lock table does not fail the test, because lockHeldIn() correctly finds no lock in it. Suite: 15/15 offscreen with the lock held, and green on Wayland except the pre-existing querycompleter screenshot flake, which fails to grab under Wayland and passes offscreen.
2026-08-06fix(sync): hold tag edits made during a background syncDanilo M.6-3/+581
A tag edit sent while another process holds notmuch's write lock does not fail: the read-write open blocks and then succeeds. Measured against Slackware's notmuch, 9.158s against a 12s hold, status SUCCESS. Since the worker is a single thread, that blocked open holds up every read queued behind it, so the message pane freezes on whichever thread was selected first and replays the queue when the lock releases. The window now defers instead. While SyncMonitor reports a sync running, a tag change is held rather than sent, and flushed when the sync ends. The optimistic update stands in the meantime, so the row keeps its tag and the edit still counts toward the unsynced indicator, which is what the quit prompt reads. The original diagnosis was that the open fails and the edit is discarded, and a retry was built on it. That was wrong: the error branch in notmuchworker.cpp is unreachable through lock contention. The premise was taken from a plausible-looking error path without provoking the condition, and measurement disproved it. The backlog entry records this rather than quietly correcting it. Verified by hand against a real blocking open, which the tests cannot reach: they drive the deferral through the meta-object and never take a lock. Both locks held for 100s with a tag edit made during the hold. Row kept the tag, status did not expire, indicator rose, window stayed responsive, held edit sent itself on release. The 2s SyncMonitor polling window is knowingly left open: a sync starting between polls is invisible for up to 2s and an edit there still blocks. SyncMonitor::lockHeldIn() would close it at the cost of one file read per tag action, and is recorded as the option to revisit. Also fixes revertPendingTagChange() clearing the entire undo stack after any rejected write, found while working on this. Backlog: item 37 done, and item 46 added for a test that fails only under the offscreen platform, where an 800x800 screen clamps a restored 940px window. Pre-existing and unrelated; the suite is green otherwise.
2026-08-05docs: reconcile backlog with usage notes, add items 39-45Danilo M.1-2/+263
The notes at the user's end are the upstream source and had drifted seven entries ahead of this document. Each new item's cause is verified against the code rather than restated from the note. Two are worth separating from the rest: - 41 is a defect. collectParts() files any part carrying a Content-Id into inlineParts and returns before the text/plain and text/html branches, so a message whose HTML body part has a content id parses with both body slots empty. That is one cause for both halves of the observation, a blank pane and "no HTML part". - 44 cannot be planned yet. It asks to manage filters applied at sync time, and no such filters exist here: MailSync runs one command and the script is mbsync plus notmuch new. The item needs the user to say where their rules live before it has a shape. Items 37 and 38 are deliberately left out of this commit; they document work that is built but not yet hand-tested, and belong with that code.
2026-08-04docs: print the open backlog as a table at session startDanilo M.1-0/+32
Extends the reconciliation step rather than adding a second one: after diffing the user's notes against the backlog, render what is open as a table with a short description, the size, and one note saying what decides whether the item can be picked up now. Then stop. The user picks. Recommending a single item reads as though the choice were already made. Defects are flagged apart from enhancements, because they read alike in a numbered list and do not deserve equal billing: item 28 sat as "a counter is wrong" while the indicator was quietly lying about whether the user's work was safe to quit on. Records two gotchas found by running the grep: item 12 lives in the deferred table, which has different columns and no size, and a status cell is prose rather than a keyword, so "open, on demand" and "open, unspecified" both mean open. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04release: 0.9.0v0.9.0Danilo M.2-1/+39
Corrections from using 0.8.0: net unsynced count, Delete as a toggle, expiring status messages, Sync disabled during a background sync, Esc to blank the pane, and a named default on the quit prompt. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04fix(sync): count unsynced edits as net state, not as writesDanilo M.4-11/+192
Item 28, reported by the user: open a thread, let the automatic mark-read remove `unread`, then press Ctrl+U to put it back. The indicator read "2 unsynced change(s)" with the mail store exactly where it started. The counter incremented per confirmed write and never decremented, so any add-then-remove of the same tag inflated it. Mark-read is simply the path that fires without being asked, which is why it surfaced there. The user's call was net state: an edit and its inverse are zero outstanding changes, because what the indicator answers is whether quitting now would strand work. A QHash keyed "<messageId>\n<tag>" replaces the int, and a pair that reverts is erased rather than stored with the new direction, so the map cannot grow without bound across a long session of tagging and untagging. Keyed per (message, tag) rather than per message: removing `unread` and adding `flagged` on one message are independent changes and must not cancel each other. A change carrying no message ids cannot be netted against anything and is counted separately, since dropping it would understate the indicator, which is the direction that costs work. Both properties item 18 established still hold: a successful sync clears everything, a failed one clears nothing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04feat(ui): make Delete a toggle, and expire transient status messagesDanilo M.4-13/+239
Items 16 and 33. Delete now removes the `deleted` tag when every selected thread already carries it, so pressing it twice puts a thread back. One direction for the whole selection, never per row: toggling each independently would leave a single keystroke with the selection in two states, which is worse than either outcome. Status messages are classified rather than blanket-timed, which is the substance of item 33. Events expire after six seconds and fall back to the last query's thread count: "Sync complete", "Nothing to undo", the skip notice, the per-action "Archive: 3 threads". State does not expire: "Searching...", "Syncing...", the selection count, and "Sync failed (exit N)", because an error must not vanish before it is read. A test caught a mistake in that routing. Making the per-action message transient armed the timer during select-all, since tagSelected() runs on a selection onSelectionChanged() had just described, and the count would then be replaced while it was still true. Writing the count now cancels any transient still counting down. QStatusBar::showMessage() would give the same behaviour but the label is added with addWidget() beside permanent widgets, so adopting it means reworking that arrangement. One timer beside the label is the smaller change. Both fixes verified by reverting them and watching the tests fail. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04docs: record item 36, and mark 24/25 done in the tableDanilo M.1-2/+47
Two 0.8.0 defects could not be given regression tests because test_mainwindow has no notmuch database, so threadLoaded never fires: the queued reply repainting a blanked pane, and a local sync reporting itself as a background one. Both were verified by hand and by a standalone model, and the first guard is still untested. tests/notmuchfixture.h already does what is needed and test_notmuchworker already uses it; test_mainwindow does not. So the item is wiring, not new machinery. Records that a corpus built from real mail was considered and rejected: the rule against personal data in fixtures forbids it, hooks enforce it, the repo is public, and one surviving In-Reply-To header names a real correspondent. Minimal hand-written .eml files reproducing a message's shape are the supported route, as truncated.eml already is. Deferred by the user until a defect needs it. Wiring it with nothing to test proves nothing. The table also still showed items 24 and 25 open; both shipped in 0.8.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04fix(ui): name the default button on the quit promptDanilo M.2-1/+26
Item 31. The user could not tell which button Enter would press on the unsynced-changes dialog. The code was already correct: setDefaultButton() is called, and Qt agrees, isDefault() and hasFocus() are both true on "Sync and quit". The active style, qt6ct-style, simply draws no visible default-button decoration. The GIMP dialog offered for comparison is GTK drawing its own focus ring, a different toolkit. Naming the default in the text rather than restyling the button: overriding the appearance means fighting the user's theme, which is worse than one word. The safe option was already the default, so no behaviour changed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04feat(ui): disable Sync during a background sync, and blank the pane on EscDanilo M.5-9/+210
Items 29 and 32. 29 was a constraint item 27 specified and that shipped unbuilt: while a cron sync held the lock the Sync button stayed clickable, and pressing it could only produce the EX_TEMPFAIL skip. The progress bar and the button are now written by one updateSyncControls() taking both sync sources, which the item asked for by name: two independent assignments, one per path, means whichever finishes second wins, so a background sync ending would re-enable the button in the middle of a local run. Unknown re-enables the button, deliberately. It means /proc/locks could not be read and nothing was observed, so leaving the button disabled would strand it permanently wherever the lock cannot be seen. 32 adds a clear_pane action on Esc. It clears m_currentThreadId with the pane, not merely alongside it, or a threadLoaded still in flight would paint the thread straight back; and it cancels any pending mark-read, since a thread blanked from view must not be marked read two seconds later. The selection, the query and the undo stack are untouched. The one real risk in 32 was Escape being stolen from the query completer, the way Return was once lost to a window shortcut. Probed rather than reasoned about: a popup consumes the key before a window-level shortcut sees it, so the completer still dismisses. Every test here was verified by reverting the code it covers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04docs: record items 28-35 from the user's notes, and how to keep them in syncDanilo M.4-1/+351
The backlog is downstream of the user's own notes, which they add to while using the app. Comparing the two turned up nine entries with no item here, two of them defects rather than enhancements: - Re-adding `unread` after the automatic mark-read counts 2 unsynced changes when the mail store is back where it started. The counter counts writes and never decrements, so any add-then-remove of the same tag inflates it (item 28). - The Sync button stays enabled while a background sync holds the lock. That was a written constraint of item 27 and shipped unbuilt, which is the strongest argument for doing this comparison at all (item 29). The rest are enhancements: a useful blank right pane, for which the user has produced the two logo images added here; a default button on the quit prompt, recorded as needing a repro because the code does set one; Esc to blank the pane; expiring status messages; a Maildir overview; and an automatic refresh after a sync. Item 35 is the one 0.8.0 deliberately did not build. A background sync reports rather than refreshes, because runCurrentQuery() clears the undo stack, the selection and the message pane. A non-destructive refresh is real work, so it is an item rather than a flag. Item 27 gains its outcome, including that its own proposed approach was the wrong one: flock -n acquires in order to test, so polling with it would have caused the exact skips the sync script reports. CLAUDE.md now carries the reconciliation step, since a note saying "X is broken" is a bug report that will sit in a personal file indefinitely unless someone goes looking. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04release: 0.8.0v0.8.0Danilo M.2-1/+37
Multi-select discoverability and awareness of background syncs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04Merge branch 'multiselect-discoverability'Danilo M.10-0/+1084
Multi-select discoverability (items 24, 25) and awareness of syncs this window did not start (item 27). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04fix(sync): stop a local sync reporting itself as a background oneDanilo M.3-10/+157
Reported from hand testing: a manual sync ended with "Sync finished elsewhere" stamped over its own result. Ownership of a lock period was being decided when the lock was RELEASED, by asking MailSync::isRunning(). That question cannot be answered then: the process exits, so isRunning() goes false, and only afterwards does the next poll observe the lock gone. The guard therefore suppressed the message while the sync ran and let it through at the end, up to two seconds after onSyncFinished() had already said what happened. Ownership is now latched when the lock APPEARS, which is the moment isRunning() can still answer, and the matching release is swallowed. onSyncFinished() hands the latch back when it sees exit 75, because a skip means the lock was never ours: if a manual run and the cron run start inside one poll interval, the lock would otherwise be latched as local and that other run's completion swallowed with it. Also renames the messages to "Background sync running/completed" per the user: "finished elsewhere" reads as though the application does not know what is syncing the Maildir, when in fact it is the same script. The tests added here cover the external path and the Unknown state. They do NOT reproduce the reported bug, and were checked against a reverted fix to confirm that: staging it needs isRunning() true at the Running transition and false at the Idle one, which cannot be arranged in test_mainwindow without a configured sync command and a live child process. That was tried and abandoned, it left a process running for the length of the suite and popped a dialog. The ordering and the fix were instead verified against a standalone model of both code paths. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04feat(sync): notice syncs this window did not startDanilo M.7-0/+487
The user's cron runs mailsync.sh every ten minutes, so mail arrives and tags change while the window sits idle, and nothing here noticed. The script already holds an flock for the whole run, so that lock is the signal: no status file is needed, and a kernel lock cannot go stale because it dies with the process holding it. The observation method is the part that matters, and two of the three plausible ones are wrong. Both were probed on Linux 6.18 before any of this was written: - flock -n acquires in order to test, so polling every two seconds would open a window every two seconds in which a starting mailsync.sh is refused the lock and exits 75. It would cause the very skips the script reports. - fcntl(F_OFD_GETLK) never acquires and looks ideal, but reports UNLOCKED against a lock held by flock(2): separate lock namespaces in the kernel, which cannot see each other. A silent false negative. - /proc/locks is a pure read. It observes flock(2) correctly, and since it takes no lock at all it can never contend with the Xapian write lock notmuch new holds during the same run. Confirmed: 200 reads left the lock table unchanged and this process holding nothing. SyncMonitor keeps the parsing separate from the polling so the parsing is testable, and it reports Unknown rather than Idle where /proc/locks cannot be read: "no sync is running" is the claim that would let the window quit, so it must never be guessed. Verified against a real flock end to end, not only against synthetic content. It reports rather than refreshes. runCurrentQuery() clears the undo stack, the selection and the message pane, which is right for a query the user typed and hostile for one a cron timer fired: it would discard undo history and close the thread being read up to six times an hour, with no action from the user. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04docs: record the two selection-model traps found in 987a9e7Danilo M.1-0/+21
currentRowChanged fires before the selection model updates, and selectAll() emits it not at all. Both cost real debugging, and the first caused two distinct faults in one change, so they belong beside the setCompleter trap rather than only in commit history. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>