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11 daysdocs: close item 81, saved query to tagging ruleDanilo M.1-0/+25
Also records item 83's fix and the warning banner in the changelog, which the earlier commit did not. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
12 daysrelease: 0.18.0v0.18.0Danilo M.1-26/+34
12 daysfeat(queries): edit, pin and delete a saved query from the UIDanilo M.1-0/+6
Item 82. Saving a query worked and nothing else did: changing one field meant retyping the whole query under the same name, and deleting one meant editing the file by hand. An action that creates something the UI cannot then change or remove is incomplete, and the user hit it within minutes of the first hand test. Right-clicking a saved query, on its button or its menu entry, now offers Edit, Move to menu / Show as a button, and Delete. Every path funnels through one replaceSavedQuery(), which matches on the name the dialog was OPENED with rather than the one it returns, so a rename replaces the entry instead of leaving the original behind beside a new one, and which merges the stored entry's unknown fields in a single place rather than in three. Delete confirms first: the rule against confirmation dialogs covers tag mutations, which the undo stack can take back, and this writes user config that it cannot. Two cases the item did not anticipate. A generated entry has no query to edit, so the dialog shows its composed query read-only rather than offering a field that changes nothing, and carries `generated` and `flat` through an edit rather than letting it decay into a plain entry holding a snapshot of what it resolved to today. And the overwrite notice had to learn to ignore the entry being edited, since warning that "Inbox" already exists while editing Inbox is noise. This also fixes a defect that predated it and was already reachable from the save path. rebuildSavedQueryRow() called deleteLater() on the old row, which defers destruction to the event loop, so the stale row went on answering findChild() and every lookup after a rebuild reported the state from before the edit. Nothing looked wrong on screen, which is why it surfaced only as three tests failing against a row that had in fact been rebuilt correctly. Five tests, three mutations. Matching on the returned name fails two, never writing the file fails three, and dropping the unknown-field merge fails one. That last one initially proved nothing: it drove UNPIN, which copies the stored entry and so carries `unknown` along by itself, and passed with the merge deleted. It now goes through the edit path with a replacement that has none, which is what the dialog actually returns. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
12 daysfeat(queries): make Sent a saved query rather than a fixed buttonDanilo M.1-1/+11
The user asked whether the default queries could be unified with Sent. The answer runs the other way: Sent joins the saved queries rather than the saved queries becoming hardcoded. Inbox, Unread and Important are complete strings that depend on nothing and can never go stale, so generating them would buy nothing and would cost the four things the file just gained: reordering, unpinning, renaming and deleting. Hardcoding them would also make them undeletable, which is a regression for anyone who does not want one of them. Sent is different only in that its query CANNOT be stored: it is composed from every account's `sent` key, so a stored copy goes stale the moment a folder is renamed. That is a property of Sent, not of "default queries". Storing the GENERATOR rather than its output keeps both halves: `"generated": "sent"` still resolves from the accounts at click time, and the entry is an ordinary row that can be reordered, renamed, unpinned or removed. The row now follows one rule instead of carrying one member the user did not own. Two properties had to travel with the entry. The composed query, resolved through Config::resolvedQuery() so what lands in the bar is what actually ran; and FLAT mode, since a sent view lists messages and a threaded one folds every reply back into the conversation the user sent one message into. The sent generator implies flat rather than trusting the file to say so, because a hand-edited row would otherwise produce a threaded sent view. An unknown generator is reported but the row is KEPT: a later build may know it, and dropping it here would delete it from the file on the next save, which is the same data loss the unknown-field handling exists to prevent. A generator whose accounts configure nothing is skipped entirely, exactly as the hardcoded button was hidden rather than offering one that finds nothing. Eight new tests. The four pre-existing Sent tests reach this through migration and were left alone, which is what proves the migrated path still behaves; the new ones cover a STORED file, which is the path every launch after the first takes. Mutations: a generator resolving to nothing fails three, ignoring flat fails two, and not skipping an empty generator fails one. A rename test guards the property the change exists for, since anything keyed on the literal name "Sent" would break it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
12 daysfix(queries): put the Save query button beside the query barDanilo M.1-4/+5
The spec asked for "a Save query button beside the search bar" and what shipped was a menu entry and Ctrl+S. The user went looking for the button where the design said it would be and did not find it. Saving is a thing you decide on while looking at the results, so it belongs where the results came from rather than behind a menu or a remembered chord. The button takes the action through setDefaultAction rather than a second connect, so it inherits the text, icon, tooltip and enabled state and cannot end up offering to save an empty query while the menu entry correctly refuses. The mutation that replaces it with a plain clicked() connection fails the test. Also records item 82: a saved query cannot be edited, unpinned or deleted from the UI. Item 23 specified saving and nothing else, and that is exactly what was built, so the only way to unpin a query is a text editor or retyping it in full under the same name. An action that creates something the UI cannot then change or remove is incomplete, and this was found within minutes of the first hand test. It is filed as a defect rather than an enhancement, and the spec now says so where a reader would otherwise take the design for complete. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
12 daysfeat(queries): save a query from the UI, and split the buttons off the query rowDanilo M.1-0/+37
Second half of item 23, on top of the storage change. A query can now be kept without hand-editing a file, and the row of buttons no longer grows without bound. Ctrl+S opens a dialog on whatever is in the query bar, taking a name, an optional account scope and whether the query is pinned. It preselects the account already chosen in the dropdown, since that is the scope the user is looking at, and it says so when a name is about to replace an existing query rather than refusing the name: overwriting a saved query on purpose is a normal edit, and the only thing worth preventing is doing it without noticing. Saving over an entry keeps the stored entry's unknown fields rather than the dialog's fresh value, so a field written by a later build survives being edited here. The saved queries move to a row of their own beneath the query bar, pinned ones as buttons and the rest behind a More queries menu that only exists when something is in it. The ponytail note that stood in the query row predicted exactly this: an unbounded list of buttons sharing the row squeezed the field. Sent moves down with them and is still not a saved query, for the reason already recorded there. A saved query's account scope goes through the account DROPDOWN rather than being baked into the query text. runQuery() already wraps the query in the selected account's path, so pre-scoping here would apply it twice, and setting the dropdown also shows the user which scope they are in. An unscoped query clears the selection rather than inheriting whatever the last one left, which is the same defect the rules preview had. Seven tests, three mutations. Ignoring the pinned flag fails two of them, pre-scoping the text instead of setting the dropdown fails two, and letting an unscoped query inherit the previous account fails one. The menu-absence test initially passed against no implementation at all, since it only asserted a widget was missing; it now proves the row was populated first, which is the guard that class of test needs. Two existing invariants caught real omissions rather than needing adjustment: every registered action must appear in KeyMap::knownActions(), which is what gives it a configurable binding, and every action needs its own icon. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
12 daysrelease: 0.17.0v0.17.0Danilo M.1-0/+30
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
12 daysfeat(rules): preview a rule's mail in the thread listDanilo M.1-0/+6
Item 77. The dialog could say how many messages a rule matched and not which ones. A Preview in list button now runs the selected rule's query in the main window; the dialog stays open, since comparing the rule against its results is the point. Two constraints from the backlog entry, both now asserted and both mutation-checked. The query runs exactly as stored, with no tag:new and no wrapping parentheses. The post-new hook adds those when it applies a rule, and a preview that copied them would match nothing outside a sync window, since tag:new is set only on mail that has just arrived. The account selector is cleared first. runQuery() wraps the bar's text in the selected account's scope, and a rule query usually names its own path already, so previewing one with an account selected would scope it twice and show an empty list, which reads as "this rule collects no mail". The second mutation only fails once the test's config has an account to select: with the default empty config the selector sits on "All accounts" anyway, and asserting that a preview leaves it there passed against the mutation. Recorded in the test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
12 daysfix(rules): a long rule no longer squeezes the rule list awayDanilo M.1-0/+5
Item 80. A rule with eight From conditions left the list showing about one and a half rows. The list was added with stretch 1 and the form below it with none, which looks decisive and is not: a stretch factor only distributes space above each widget's minimum, and the form's minimum grew with every condition row, so each row came straight out of the list. The builder asked for 120px with one row and 414px with eight. A QSplitter now divides the list from the editor, so the balance is the user's and is saved beside the column widths, and the condition rows sit in a QScrollArea capped at 190px so the editor cannot grow without bound however the splitter is set. The scroll area is what text mode hides; hiding the builder inside it would leave an empty frame. Three measures were tried in the test before one told the bug and the fix apart, and two passed against broken code: the dialog's minimumSizeHint does not track form rows and read 580 either way, and a qMin against the scroll area's own hint read small whether or not the cap was set, since an uncapped maximumHeight is QWIDGETSIZE_MAX. What survives mutation is the editor pane's minimum inside the splitter, plus the cap read directly, and both are asserted. A row's size hint is invalid until the event loop runs, so the test calls processEvents after selecting a rule or it measures the same height twice. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
12 daysdocs: the window size cannot be restored under a tiling compositorDanilo M.1-3/+5
Item 75 shipped claiming the rules window remembers its size. It does not, and no code here can make it. Hyprland tiles the window to fill its slot, so the size dragged belongs to the tile. saveGeometry stores frameGeometry beside normalGeometry and restoreGeometry restores the normal one, which stays at whatever resize() last set it to. Decoded from the real state file after a hand test: frame 2248x806, normal 760x664. The dialog restores 760 correctly and still opens tiled. Three diagnoses were tried before this one and each was disproved by a probe rather than argued away: that restoreGeometry rejected the blob as off-screen, that the layout overrode a geometry applied before the first show, and that a test could tell the broken and fixed versions apart. The last one matters most: the offscreen platform returns an identical frame for both, so a size assertion passed against the bug and a mutation restoring it left the suite green. That assertion is not reinstated. The column widths, which are what actually works, keep their test. The changelog and the backlog entry are corrected to say what ships, and CLAUDE.md gains both the tiling-compositor trap and the rule that the offscreen platform cannot test window sizing at all. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
12 daysfeat(rules): the rules window keeps its size and column widthsDanilo M.1-5/+10
Item 75. saveGeometry() and the rule list header's saveState() go to uistate.conf under keys of their own, written on closeEvent so a size survives Cancel as well as Save. The 760x520 resize stays as the first-run fallback. The backlog's approach was wrong on one point and a test caught it. It said to drop the resizeColumnToContents calls once a saved header state exists, which fixes the restore and leaves the original defect standing: with nothing saved, a width the user had just dragged was still discarded by the next add or delete. Each column is instead auto-sized once, on its first fill, after which the width belongs to the user however it was set. Two flags, because the count column is filled later by a reply from the worker. The window stays a QDialog. Making it a top-level window needs the unsaved-edit story that being modal currently sidesteps, and that is its own decision rather than part of this item. Both tests redirect XDG_STATE_HOME as well as XDG_CONFIG_HOME, so they cannot write the real uistate.conf. The geometry is asserted on the stored value rather than the reopened frame, per item 46: the offscreen platform does not honour a resize. Also corrects setFolders' doc comment, which still described the folder list as coming from Config. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
12 daysdocs: changelog for the rule builderDanilo M.1-0/+22
12 daysrelease: 0.16.0v0.16.0Danilo M.1-0/+10
12 daysdocs(backlog): record item 44 as doneDanilo M.1-0/+34
The tagging rules moved from the shell post-new hook to a shared JSON store both qtmaildir and mailctl read. Seventeen real rules were converted, each keeping its shell comment as a note, and the conversion was proved against the real index before anything was installed. Four findings are recorded in CLAUDE.md rather than only here, because they will outlive the item: a stored query carries no scope and the hook parenthesises it (a disjunction would otherwise escape tag:new and match everything); notmuch's parser rejects almost nothing, so a test asserting a provoked query failure fails against correct code; rule counts must count messages rather than threads; and a count request must not bump the query generation, which would blank the message pane.
14 daysfeat(panes): draw the pane marks from shipped SVGs, not font glyphsDanilo M.1-0/+8
Items 70 and 69, the second folded into the first as item 70's own size note predicted it should be. The panes drew their state marks as font glyphs: U+1F4CE for an attachment and U+2605 for a flagged thread, each with a fallback for a font that cannot render it. Both fell back to "*", so on such a font a flagged thread and one carrying an attachment were indistinguishable, which is a defect the fallback introduced rather than prevented. What a mark looks like was also the desktop's decision rather than this application's, and the panes are exactly where it should not be: the user asked for the toolbar and menus to keep following their icon theme while the panes stop. Six marks now ship in assets/icons/marks/: flagged, attachment, passed, replied and the two expander triangles. QIcon::fromTheme still resolves every toolbar and menu icon and was not touched. Licensing chose the shapes. The look came from a GPL3 icon theme, and this project is GPLv2-only, which are incompatible: GPLv2's "no further restrictions" clause bars shipping GPL3 assets in a v2-only work. The six were drawn fresh in the same idiom instead, with no path data copied. The idiom is generic: solid single-path silhouettes at 16x16 with no strokes. They are compiled in as string literals rather than loaded from a .qrc. src/CMakeLists.txt already records why resources belong to the executable: a qrc in the static library registers itself from a global initialiser the linker drops. The tests link the library, so a resource-based mark would be missing exactly where it needs asserting. assets/icons/marks/ stays the editable source. One asset serves both palettes. Every payload paints with fill="currentColor", which QSvgRenderer renders black rather than resolving, so Marks::pixmap composites the wanted colour with CompositionMode_SourceIn. A mark then takes the card's own pen colour and follows selection and the read/unread dimming without a second variant to keep in step. CardLayout reserves a rect per mark and CardDelegate paints into it. The marks were glyphs inside the subject STRING, so their width came free from the text metrics; as icons the geometry has to know they are there or the subject runs underneath them. The expander pill had the same trap, its triangle being a glyph in expanderLabel(), and now reserves that width explicitly. Item 69's part: passed and replied were words in the tag strip and are marks beside the subject now. The message pane's header carries the flagged and attachment marks next to the subject, per the user's decision that the right pane needs those two and only outside the message area. A duplicate that no test caught is worth recording. Every geometry assertion passed while a card showed passed as BOTH an arrow and a green tag chip: the chip filter had no reason to know a mark had appeared. It was found by rendering real cards to an image and looking at them. isDrawnAsAMark() is now one list consulted by both PillTagsRole and MessageOwnTagsRole, since two copies drifting apart is how a tag ends up drawn twice on one row and not at all on another. Fourteen tests: nine in test_marks, four in test_cardlayout, one in test_threadlistmodel. Mutation-checked at four points, each failing a test: the subject ignoring the marks, the flag not indenting the subject, the pill forgetting the triangle's width, and the recolour composite removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
14 daysfeat(sync): sync a tag change automatically after a short delayDanilo M.1-0/+18
Item 71. A tag edit reached the notmuch index at edit time and then sat there until the user clicked Sync or their cron job fired, so "mark all read" updated the view while the change itself waited, sometimes for ten minutes. A confirmed edit now arms a debounce that runs the existing sync path. The delay is auto_sync_delay_ms in [general], defaulting to 2000, and follows mark_read_delay_ms exactly, including that zero and negative are not errors: zero syncs on the next trip through the event loop, and any negative value disables the behaviour, which is the switch for a user who wants only their cron job. It is armed from onTagsApplied, where a write is confirmed and the pending count is already current, rather than where one is sent: a sync scheduled for a write the worker went on to reject would run for nothing. A debounce rather than a schedule, restarted by each edit, because "mark all read" confirms one write per thread in the view and an arm-per-edit timer would be the storm of syncs the debounce exists to prevent. Nothing is armed when no sync command is configured or when the pending count is zero, the case where an edit was netted against its own inverse. When the timer fires with a sync already running, local or cron, it skips rather than queues: mbsync's own answer to a second run is to fail on it, and the edits stay pending rather than being lost. Also fixes a pane blanked out from under the reader, found by hand testing this feature. onSyncFinished called runCurrentQuery() where the cron path calls refreshCurrentQuery(), and a re-run clears the model, the undo stack and the message pane. The stale-thread notice handles a thread that stops matching the query and has since item 35, but a re-run left nothing for it to describe. The two paths had no reason to differ; before this item a local sync only followed a click on Sync, so the difference went unnoticed. Reading a message in the Unread view, having it marked read, and watching the pane go blank two seconds later is what surfaced it. Its test asserts on the undo stack rather than the pane: both paths issue a queued query test_mainwindow has no worker to answer, so the pane ends up blank either way and an assertion on it would pass against both, while the undo stack is cleared by one and kept by the other. Nine tests, four in test_config and five in test_mainwindow, each mutation-checked: removing the schedule call, honouring a negative delay, dropping the nothing-pending guard, dropping the already-running guard, and restoring runCurrentQuery() each fail a test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
14 daysrelease: 0.15.0v0.15.0Danilo M.1-0/+29
14 daysfeat(placeholder): count sent mail and drafts on the blank paneDanilo M.1-0/+6
Item 67. The pane counted unread, flagged and inbox from three fixed tag: queries. Sent and drafts cannot join that list as tags: tag:draft counts 0 against a real database and no draft-ish tag exists in it at all, so a tag-based line would be a permanent zero that reads as working code. Both are composed from each account's folder keys instead, the same way the Sent view already composes its query. The drafts key was parsed and documented as unused in v1. Composing drafts is still v2; counting them is not, so Account::draftsQuery() and Config::allDraftsQuery() now mirror the sent pair. The shared body moved into folderQuery() and joinAccountQueries(), so the load-bearing quoting (a provider nests both folders under a bracketed parent, and [ and ] are Xapian syntax) and the bare-"or" guard exist once rather than once per folder type. The fixed array is gone rather than extended. It held queries and labels in two lists indexed in parallel, which is a hazard that grows with the list: an entry inserted in one and not the other prints a real number against the wrong name and looks entirely plausible. placeholderLines() carries each query beside the callable that labels it, so the two cannot drift, and the count reply stays paired by position as the worker requires. A line is omitted when no account configures that folder rather than shown as 0, following item 63: a missing folder is a real configuration, and "0 sent" claims the user has sent nothing. Measured against the real config: 4 sent terms over 601 threads, 5 drafts terms over 3, the extra drafts term coming from the one account that configures drafts and no sent, which is what proves the two are collected independently. Four tests here and four in test_config, mutation-checked at three points: dropping the drafts line, an off-by-one in the label pairing, and removing the -1 guard for an uncountable query. Each mutation fails a test.
2026-08-11feat(sent): add a Sent view, flat and by recipientDanilo M.1-0/+8
Adds a `sent` key to [account.*] naming that account's sent folder, and a Sent button beside the saved queries that composes its query from every account carrying one. An account without the key is omitted silently, as a real account may keep no sent mail locally. With no account selected the button spans all of them; selecting one narrows it through the existing scope wrap rather than a second path. Composed at run time rather than shipped as a [queries] entry. A saved query is one fixed string: it cannot narrow to the selected account, and it goes stale the moment an account is added or a provider renames a folder. The design and the measurements behind it are in docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-11-sent-mail-design.md. Three things there are worth repeating here. The composed path is QUOTED, and that is load-bearing. A real provider nests its sent folder under a bracketed parent, and "[" and "]" are Xapian syntax: unquoted, the query parses rather than matches and returns nothing while looking entirely plausible. Composition happens in one place so there is one chance to get it right, and a bracketed path is pinned in a test. Recipients are opt-in per query, which is a performance contract rather than a preference. notmuch_message_get_header(m, "To") is not served from the index, it reads the message file: folding every thread of a 4411-thread inbox took 38.2 seconds against 251 ms for the 601-thread sent view. The worker skips the walk entirely unless asked, and the refresh path carries the same flag so a background sync cannot blank the column mid-read. Always folding is mutation-tested: the data would be right and only the cost wrong, which nothing else here would notice. The messages reached through the thread are owned by it and freed with it, so recipientsOf() holds them raw and finishes while the thread is alive, exactly as walkReplies does. An NmMessage wrapper there is a double-free. Sent mail is presented flat, and the pane follows. A message you sent otherwise drags in the replies you received, so a view labelled Sent shows conversations rather than what you sent. ThreadListModel::setFlatMode() makes hasChildren() and ReplyCountRole answer differently and changes nothing else; runQuery() sets it on EVERY run, so any other query restores the tree on its way through and the flag cannot outlive the button that set it. The pane needed its own fix for the same reason: the single-message path depends on a field only filled when a thread is expanded, which never happens in a flat list, so loadThread() gained matchedOnly and drops the messages that did not match instead of rendering them as stubs. Recipients replace the sender through the existing SendersRole rather than a new one, so the delegate needs no branch and cannot disagree with the model about which name a row shows. It falls back to the sender when a To header is absent or unparseable, since a blank where a name belongs reads as a rendering fault. Address parsing uses GMime: a display name may contain a comma, so "Rossi, Mario" <m@example.org>, info@example.net is two addresses and splitting reports three. internet_address_list_parse returns NULL for an empty string, which is a crash if unguarded. Backlog item 63.
2026-08-11feat(config): let the date format on a card be configuredDanilo M.1-0/+8
Adds [general] date_format, a QDateTime pattern for the date a thread card shows. Absent or empty means the system locale's short format, which is what every other application on the desktop uses and stays the default. The format reaches the LAYOUT, not only the painter. CardLayout::compute() reserves the date's width from widestDateSample(), so a pattern that arrived only at the drawText call would be elided into a rect sized for the old format, which is the clipping the bold-font fault already produced once. It rides on CardLayout::Input and defaults to an empty string, leaving every existing call site unchanged. Confirmed by mutation: making the width ignore the format fails the test. widestDateSample() memoised its result in a static, which would have sized every format after the first from whichever arrived first. It is a plain call now, costing one QLocale lookup per row, the same as formatting the date. Validation rejects only a pattern whose output is CONSTANT, found by formatting two different instants and comparing. QDateTime::toString() treats nearly every letter as a field, so "banana" formats as "bpmnpmnpm" and "hello" as "22ello": nonsense, but they vary with the instant, and a check claiming to find "no date field" cannot reject them. What harms the user is the pattern that prints the same text on every card, and that is what is refused, with the value named in the message. The model supplies the pattern through DateFormatRole for the same reason it supplies the tag colours: it is the one object here holding config, and a delegate reading config itself would be a second source of truth. Backlog item 62.
2026-08-11feat(ui): give Sync the refresh iconDanilo M.1-0/+6
The Sync button used mail-receive, a mailbox glyph, which reads as "mail" rather than "fetch again". The toolbar follows the desktop's tool button style, so on an icon-only desktop the icon is the whole control and has to carry the meaning by itself. view-refresh is the standard freedesktop name for the action. The existing noTwoActionsShareAnIcon test covers the collision risk that the 0.12.0 Archive/Mark-all-read defect came from, and passes. Also records the backlog reconciliation this came from: items 64 and 65, appended from the user's notes with their causes verified in code. 65 is "full code review and optimization", which names no symptom or measurement and is filed unspecified rather than given a design. Backlog item 64.
2026-08-10release: 0.14.0v0.14.0Danilo M.1-0/+15
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10feat(view): follow a background sync without a keystrokeDanilo M.1-0/+19
The thread list now updates itself when a sync finishes, whether it is empty or populated. New threads appear where the sort puts them, threads that stopped matching leave, and threads whose state changed repaint. Refreshing used to mean re-running the query, which cleared the model, the selection, the message pane and the undo stack, so 0.8.0 declined to do it on a cron timer and asked the user to press Enter instead. The result was a list that quietly disagreed with the database: mail indexed by cron never appeared, and an Unread view read to the end sat empty in front of it. ThreadListModel::reconcile() diffs a result against the current rows by thread id instead, so a surviving thread keeps its row, its persistent index and its loaded replies. Order comes from the result and is never imposed here, which is what makes the sort dropdown authoritative. The undo constraint this was sized around did not exist: no undo entry was ever keyed on a row. ThreadTagCommand stores thread ids and MessageTagCommand stores message ids, and applyTagChange() looks its target up by id, so an entry already survived its rows leaving the view. A thread read out of the current view now leaves the list, which is correct and would otherwise strand the reader, so MessageView grows a notice saying the open thread no longer matches, with a button that re-queries it. Recovery lists the whole conversation, expands it, and restores the message that was on screen rather than reopening at the first one. Ten defects were found building this, nine of them by hand testing: - SyncMonitor::start() polls synchronously, so an idle lock file emits stateChanged(Idle) from inside buildUi() and the first handler to touch a widget segfaults before the window exists. - QTreeView sets a current index when it takes focus with none set, and current drives loading, so new mail opened itself and was marked read without the user having looked at it. Selection is now required. - The notice outlived what it described, both when the pane was blanked and when another message replaced it. - Retiring the "Background sync completed" message left the bar claiming a sync was still running: silent means saying nothing new, not leaving a stale claim on screen. - A thread root sets both the thread id and the message id, so treating the message id as the message-row case discarded it for the commonest way to open a thread. - A freshly queried root does not know its own first message until the tree loads, so recovery selected nothing and left the pane blank. - A user query mid-recovery had its result hijacked by the pending selection. - MessageView emitted the recovery signal with its own members, so a direct connection handed MainWindow references that runCurrentQuery() then cleared by blanking the pane. The ids went empty mid-slot and no recovery ever ran. Every test passed against this, because reaching a slot through invokeMethod copies its arguments. A Qt signal argument is a reference until something copies it. Emitting a member to a slot that can re-enter the emitter is a use-after-write, and it presents as a wrong value rather than as a crash. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10release: 0.13.0v0.13.0Danilo M.1-0/+35
2026-08-10docs: record the card list, and correct what CLAUDE.md claimsDanilo M.1-6/+34
The architecture section described ThreadListView as existing to paint a strip across columns. That was true until this change and is now the opposite of true: it survives only for the expander hit-test. Kept as one paragraph of history, since it explains the file's shape, but no longer stated as current behaviour. Two traps are recorded inverted rather than deleted, because the rule survived its own reason changing. The reply indent is still asserted on where the TEXT lands, but where visualRect lies has flipped: it used to report an indent the text did not have, and now reports none while the text is indented. And Q_ENUM is documented as insufficient for a queued Q_ARG, which cost a silently dropped sort argument. Item 60's recorded cause was wrong and is corrected in place. It was read off master, where the row arithmetic really is current.row() + 1; the branch had already fixed it a commit earlier with threadRowOf(). The entry stays, with the correction, because the reasoning was sound and the tests it demanded now exist. Items 20, 51 and 53 are marked built on the branch rather than done. Nothing is merged and the user has not seen it, which is the whole point of Task 10.
2026-08-10docs: record message rows, and the user's verdict on themDanilo M.1-0/+13
CLAUDE.md described a QTableView over a table model, which has not been true since the view port. Updated with the traps the port produced, each of which shipped a plausible-looking broken build before being caught: - A tree numbers rows per parent, so nothing may be keyed on a row NUMBER. - drawBranches runs before the row's cells, so an expander on a content column is painted over by the delegate's background. - setRootIsDecorated(false) removes the style's HIT AREA along with its indicator, leaving a glyph that renders and does nothing. - isExpanded and setExpanded are keyed on column 0. - A reply's indent must beat the account chip's width, and visualRect reports the indent correctly even when nothing is visibly indented. - paintEvent runs after the cells, so a full-row fill erases their text. Also the notmuch ownership rule, which is a double-free if undone: messages reached through a thread are freed with it, so walkReplies holds them raw against this file's own RAII convention. Item 20 is marked built, not done, and item 53 records why. The user's verdict on the finished result was that the table view does not fit the use, said with every cue in and working. That is a design finding rather than a defect: the item shipped exactly what its four decisions specified, and all four were the user's own choices. Recording it as a defect would misattribute the cause; recording nothing would leave the next session building on a rejected design. Item 53 carries the cause verified in code rather than guessed. A message row fills the same five columns as a thread row (threadlistmodel.cpp:275-283 mirroring :428-431), so replies land on the same rigid column boundaries as the threads around them, and the eye reads columns before indentation or tint. The reference the user gave has no column rules through its reply rows at all, and that absence is the one thing three added cues cannot supply.
2026-08-09docs: record items 55 and 58, with their causes correctedDanilo M.1-0/+16
Both backlog entries stated a cause that measurement contradicted, and both would have misled the next reader into fixing the wrong thing. Item 55 blamed the thread view's size hint, computed as the sum of its fixed column widths, and placed the fault on first run. The hint is 256px, not 886: a QTableView does not put its column sum in its size hint, so that mechanism never applied. The trigger is the restore, in a window narrower than the one the position was saved in. Item 58 claimed the zoom range is unenforced and the first render unusable. MessageView::clampZoom() has always enforced exactly the README's 0.5 and 3.0; only the report was missing.
2026-08-09release: 0.12.1v0.12.1Danilo M.1-0/+4
One fix: Archive and Mark all read shipped 0.12.0 sharing an icon, which the same release's toolbar change made visible by removing the text labels that had been disambiguating them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09fix(ui): give Archive its own iconDanilo M.1-0/+8
Item 59, reported by the user against 0.12.0. Archive and Mark all read both used `mail-mark-read`, so with the toolbar following a desktop set to icon-only the two buttons were indistinguishable, despite doing different things: archive removes `inbox` from the selection, mark all read removes `unread` from the whole view. Introduced by item 56 in the same session. `archive` had that name from before, when only eight actions carried icons, and item 56 assigned it to `mark_all_read` as well without checking the table for duplicates. `mail-archive` is also the more accurate name, since `mail-mark-read` describes read state rather than archiving. The test asserts the class rather than the reported pair: a hand-written table of twenty-four names has more plausible duplicates in it, so noTwoActionsShareAnIcon compares every action against every other. It compares cacheKey() rather than the theme name, because two different names resolving to the same art are equally ambiguous on screen, and it guards on every action having an icon first, since on a theme that resolves nothing the comparison loop would never run and pass vacuously. Mutation-checked with a different collision. Item 56's own probe is what let this through: it verified every name resolves to non-null art, which is true of two names resolving to the same art. Resolving and being distinguishable are separate properties. The replacement was picked by rendering both at 24px and comparing the images. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09release: 0.12.0v0.12.0Danilo M.1-0/+21
Collects the per-account sync, the cron-sync indicator fix, and the toolbar and icon work that had been sitting unreleased since 0.11.0. A minor bump rather than a patch: two user-visible behaviours changed. The Flag action is now called Important, and the toolbar follows the desktop's own button style instead of always showing text beside icons. Both are documented under Upgrading, along with the saved-query label that a user may want to rename to match. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09feat(ui): make the toolbar icon size configurableDanilo M.1-0/+4
Follow-up to item 56. With the toolbar now following the desktop's button style, an "icon only" desktop makes the icon the whole control, and this style reports PM_ToolBarIconSize as 16px, which is a small target for a button with no text beside it. A [general] toolbar_icon_size key, 16 to 64, defaulting to 24 rather than to the style's own metric. Setting it to 16 restores the theme's value. Clamped and reported, unlike message_zoom, which documents a 0.5 to 3.0 range in the README and enforces none of it. Both ends here break the UI that would be used to fix them: too small is an invisible icon, too large is a toolbar taller than the window. The unenforced message_zoom range is recorded as item 58 rather than fixed here, since it is a separate defect that predates this change. Also documents in the README that saved-query button labels are the key names from the user's own [queries] section, which is why the "Flagged" button still read that way after the action was renamed: it is a user's query name, not a string this code owns. The sample config now shows `Important = tag:flagged` to teach the wording the UI uses. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09feat(ui): icons on every action, and rename Flag to ImportantDanilo M.1-0/+26
Items 56 and 57, done together because both touch the action registry. 56. The complaint was inconsistency, not absence: eight of twenty-four actions had themed icons, so two adjacent entries in one menu disagreed and the toolbar laid out an empty slot for the other sixteen. The themeIcons table now covers them all. The fifteen names added were probed against a live icon theme first rather than taken from the freedesktop spec on faith, and the existing null-icon guard still lets a theme that lacks one fall back to text. The second half of the note asked that buttons honour the desktop's "Icon only" setting. They could not: the hardcoded setToolButtonStyle overrode it whatever the user had chosen. It now reads SH_ToolButtonStyle. Dropping the call entirely was tried and rejected, since a bare QToolBar defaults to ToolButtonIconOnly rather than to the platform hint, which ignores the setting just as thoroughly the other way. This is a visible change: on a desktop set to "Icon only" the toolbar now shows icons without text. 57. "Important" over "Starred", the user's pick; the Message menu already has "Mark &spam", so "Starred" would have needed an accelerator from inside the word. Changed the action text, its status tip, the undo description and the star column's tooltip, which still read "Flagged". The tag stays `flagged`. It is wire format that neomutt, the user's saved queries and ThreadSummary::isFlagged() all read, and following the label through to the tag would rewrite the mail store and desynchronise every other tool over the same Maildir. The action name stays `flag` too, since that is the key users write in [keys]. Four tests. everyActionCarriesAnIcon names every action missing one and guards against passing on an empty list; it reported all sixteen before the change. theImportantActionStillWritesTheFlaggedTag asserts on the tag the model actually received, and mutating it to `important` fails that test plus two pre-existing held-edit tests. Also adds the changelog entry for the cron-sync indicator fix, which the commit that made it omitted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07feat(sync): sync only the accounts with unsynced editsDanilo M.1-0/+16
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.1-0/+32
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): show each thread's tags under its rowDanilo M.1-6/+14
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.1-0/+6
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.1-0/+7
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.1-0/+33
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>
2026-08-06release: 0.10.0v0.10.0Danilo M.1-0/+43
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>
2026-08-04release: 0.9.0v0.9.0Danilo M.1-0/+38
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>
2026-08-04release: 0.8.0v0.8.0Danilo M.1-0/+36
Multi-select discoverability and awareness of background syncs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04feat(sync): bring mailsync.sh here, print to stdout, exit truthfullyDanilo M.1-1/+17
The reference sync script lived in the companion mailctl project, which documents that it never calls it: sync and organization are separate there on purpose. qtmaildir is the only thing that runs it programmatically, and two of its behaviours were live bugs here, so it belongs in this repo where the constraints on it are. It printed nothing a caller could see. Everything was redirected to $LOGFILE, so MailSync captured an empty stream and the sync log pane stayed blank, a known limitation carried since 0.1.0. It now writes to both through tee: cron keeps its log, and the pane has something to show. It also ended in an unconditional exit 0, discarding statuses it had already computed. qtmaildir believes that exit code: a failed mbsync reported success, cleared the unsynced-changes count, and would have allowed a sync-on-exit to quit over a sync that never happened, which is exactly the case the exit prompt exists to prevent. It now exits with mbsync's status, or notmuch's when mbsync succeeded. The statuses move through files rather than shell variables because the run block is piped into tee, which puts it in a subshell where an assignment does not survive. Verified against stub mbsync and notmuch binaries in a fake HOME, so no mail or database was touched: output reaches stdout, the log still gets every line, and a failing mbsync or notmuch produces its own exit code rather than zero. Both properties are now recorded in CLAUDE.md, since they exist for this application's sake and an edit that looks like a cleanup would remove them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04release: 0.7.0v0.7.0Danilo M.1-0/+48
Arbitrary tagging from the UI and the unsynced-edits work are both new features, so this takes the minor slot. The SlackBuild's MD5SUM stays at the previous value until the 0.7.0 snapshot tarball exists, which is after the tag is pushed. Update it with sbodl before building the package. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04release: 0.6.0v0.6.0Danilo M.1-0/+36
Message details and automatic mark-read are both new features, so this takes the minor slot. The SlackBuild's MD5SUM stays at the previous value until the 0.6.0 snapshot tarball exists, which is after the tag is pushed. Update it with sbodl before building the package. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04release: 0.5.0v0.5.0Danilo M.1-0/+54
Query completion is a new feature, so this takes the minor slot rather than a patch, the accompanying bug fixes notwithstanding. The SlackBuild's MD5SUM is left at the 0.4.1 value on purpose: it can only be computed once the 0.5.0 snapshot tarball exists, which is after the tag is pushed. Update it with sbodl before the package is built. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04release: 0.4.1v0.4.1Danilo M.1-0/+15
Packaging only. The 0.4.0 tarball predated QTMAILDIR_BUILD_TESTS, so a package built from it accepted -DQTMAILDIR_BUILD_TESTS=OFF and ignored it. This tag is the first whose source honours the flag. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04release: 0.4.0v0.4.0Danilo M.1-0/+37
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04release: 0.3.0v0.3.0Danilo M.1-0/+51
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04release: 0.2.0v0.2.0Danilo M.1-3/+32
2026-08-04feat: use the application iconDanilo M.1-2/+24
The icon was committed in a previous session and referenced nowhere: no qrc, no .desktop entry, no setWindowIcon. It is wired up now, as a window icon, a desktop entry, and install rules placing both into hicolor and share/applications. resources.qrc belongs to the executable rather than to qtmaildir_lib. A qrc compiled into a static library registers itself from a global initialiser, and the linker discards that object because nothing references it: the build succeeded, qInitResources_resources() was present in the .a, and QFile::exists(":/icons/qtmaildir.svg") still returned false at runtime. Verified loading at 16, 32 and 64 pixels after the move. Toolbar and menu actions take icons from the system theme by their standard names, so they match the rest of the desktop rather than shipping bespoke art. A theme lacking one leaves that action as text, which still works.