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Four faults from the first hand test, two of them behavioural.
An expander that opened onto nothing. setThreadMessages kept only nodes with
depth > 0, and notmuch_thread_get_toplevel_messages returns every message at
depth 0 when a thread carries no usable In-Reply-To, so a flat thread
contributed no children while its card still advertised the count. Measured in
the user's database: of 396 inbox threads three are flat, one of them nine
messages long, and every two-message thread of that kind was affected, which is
exactly why the fault looked like "the expander only works with more than one
reply". The rule is now position, not depth: every message except the first,
which is the root card itself. That is also the correct rule rather than a
workaround, since the row under the root is the second message however notmuch
chose to nest it.
The thread's first message was unreachable. Selecting a root card loaded the
whole thread, so the pane showed every message with only the last expanded, and
no row in the list offered the first one: the reply rows are messages two
onward. The root card now renders its own message, which is what the card
already claims to be. It keeps its thread id, unlike the message-row path, so
mark-read and the tag-change repaint still work; that is asserted, because
clearing it is the obvious way to write this and silently disables both. Before
the replies are loaded the model has no first message to name and the whole
thread stays the honest answer.
Dates ignored the locale. One hardcoded "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm" produced a US-looking
format on an Italian desktop; QLocale::system() now formats it, and the width
reserved for the date comes from the same function so a longer locale cannot
clip.
The expander was a bare number on the card's own background. It is a pill now,
carrying "3 replies" (and "1 reply", singular), sized from the label actually
drawn and measured in both glyph states so it does not resize under the pointer
on click. Its fill is blended from Text toward Base rather than taken from
QPalette::Button, which is #2b2b2b against a Base of #2b2b2b on the user's
theme: byte identical, so the pill was invisible. A theme may make any two roles
equal; a blend is defined against the surface it sits on and cannot collide with
it. Checked by rendering both a dark and a light palette and looking.
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Two entries, straight to notmuch. This adds a feature rather than replacing one:
the column header was decorative and nothing implemented click-to-sort, so
removing the header with the grid lost nothing.
Stored in uistate.conf, never in the hand-edited config, and range-guarded on
read: a stale file can hold anything, which is the lesson item 58 recorded.
SortOrder needed qRegisterMetaType despite carrying Q_ENUM. Q_ENUM gives the
enum a meta-object entry, not a metatype registered under the name invokeMethod
resolves, so the queued runQuery would have dropped its sort argument at runtime
and every query would have silently run newest-first. Nothing in the suite
exercises a real worker thread, so this was asserted directly rather than left
to a warning nobody would see. It is registered beside the type rather than in
MainWindow's constructor: a first attempt put it there and passed only because
the test that catches it never constructs a MainWindow.
The account dropdown's entries now carry their account's colour as a swatch,
which is what makes the accent bar on a card mean anything: a colour down a
card's edge says nothing until something maps it to a name. Raw colour here
rather than the blended line colour, since a swatch is a filled patch like a
chip rather than a thin line. Its test builds its own two-account config: reading
the environment's made it SKIP wherever no accounts are configured, which is a
test that asserts nothing while reporting success.
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next_thread and prev_thread now walk with indexBelow/indexAbove, skipping
message rows, so they keep meaning thread-to-thread whatever is expanded.
Stepping message-to-message needs no code: QTreeView's own Up/Down walk VISIBLE
rows and already enter an expanded thread, and being the view's key handling
rather than a shortcut they stay inert when the message pane, a menu or an entry
bar has focus.
Item 60 turns out to have been fixed already, in 5487d58 on this branch, by
threadRowOf() walking up to the containing thread before doing the arithmetic.
The backlog entry was written against master, where that helper does not exist,
so it described a defect this branch had resolved a commit earlier. Verified by
writing both failing tests first and watching them pass: from the last reply of
an expanded thread, and from a thread root with its replies showing. They are
kept, because the property they assert is the one this change must not lose.
What the rewrite buys is that nothing is keyed on a row number any more, which
is the rule a deeper tree would break next.
Alt+Up/Down added alongside Ctrl+J/K. That required KeyMap::sequencesFor and a
move from setShortcut to setShortcuts, because the singular setter keeps only
the last binding and the second one was silently unreachable. Alt because
Shift+arrows is the built-in extend-selection that multi-row tagging depends on,
and because a bare arrow cannot be a window shortcut without breaking every text
field in the window, as Return already demonstrated. sequencesFor puts
sequenceFor's own choice first so the menus advertise an unchanged binding, and
sorts the tail, since QHash order is unspecified.
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ThreadListView::paintEvent and its band arithmetic are deleted. The view existed
to paint a strip across five columns; with one column and one delegate painting
the whole card there is nothing to span, and the two faults that arithmetic kept
producing go with it: a deleted row cut in half, and every other row showing a
bare stripe.
What survives is the expander hit-test, because a delegate gets no click of its
own without an editor. It now asks CardDelegate for the rect rather than
recomputing it, so the drawn target and the clickable one cannot drift. The
siblingAtColumn(0) dance is gone: with one column, the index already is column 0.
Item 51 closes here rather than separately. A card is exactly viewport width, so
the view has no horizontal scroll range for a click to scroll into, and the test
asserts that directly.
Two rendering tests had to change how they measure, not merely which index they
name. The indent test asserted on visualRect, which now reports the SAME rect
for a thread and its reply by design, since setIndentation(0) leaves the indent
to CardLayout: it reads contentLeft off the layout instead. And the expander
test reported zero ink over a card the delegate paints 2183 pixels into, because
viewport()->render() returned a blank image, exactly as CLAUDE.md warns; it now
paints the delegate into an image directly and carries a guard proving the probe
can see ink before it reports finding none. Both were mutation-checked.
Two tests are deleted rather than ported. Both existed to prove the row-wide
strip spanned columns a delegate could not reach, which is a property of code
that no longer exists.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A splitter position is saved in pixels, so one saved in a wide window
does not fit a narrower one: QSplitter::restoreState() honours the first
pane's saved size verbatim and gives the second whatever is left. A real
1285/1252 split restored into a 1136px window left the message pane 29px
wide, a sliver of rendered mail beside a full-width thread list. The
wider the window ever was, the worse the next narrower session.
Fixed with a minimum width on the pane and setCollapsible(1, false),
which covers the restore and the equivalent drag. A restore-time repair
running from showEvent() was written first and deleted: with the floor
in place it was mutation-tested to be redundant, since the minimum width
constrains restoreState() as much as it constrains a drag.
The floor is 300px rather than a bare "visible" width, because it is
reached only when a position does not fit and should land somewhere mail
is readable; at 200 the placeholder's own text wraps every few words.
The test asserts against the pane's own minimumWidth() rather than a
repeated literal, with a guard on the floor itself so it cannot pass
against a lowered one.
Note for later work in test_mainwindow: the offscreen platform chooses
the window width itself and has been seen to choose differently between
two runs of the same binary (1181 and 779), and it ignores resize(),
setFixedWidth() and a resize of the splitter on a shown window. Any
assertion on a pane ratio, or on the second pane's pixels, is measuring
that choice rather than this code.
Backlog item 55, whose recorded cause blamed the thread view's size hint
and first-run layout. Measured, that hint is 256px, not the 886 the item
computed from the column widths, and a freshly built window splits
correctly; the entry has been corrected in place.
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Item 54. A sync fired by the user's cron carries tag edits to the mail
store exactly as a local one does, but only onSyncFinished() cleared the
pending state, so the indicator kept reporting work that had already
shipped and the exit prompt asked to sync for it. Verified against a
real cron run: 31 changes, cleared with no manual sync.
The window cannot see an external run's exit status, and /proc/locks
carries no outcome. It does not need to: mailsync.sh already ends every
run with a "RUN END ... status=OK" banner in its log, which outlives the
process that wrote it. MailSync::lastRunOutcome() reads a bounded tail
of that file and takes the last completed marker, so no change to the
script and no optimistic guessing were needed.
Only a definite OK clears anything. A failed run, a missing or
unreadable log, and a State::Unknown lock reading all leave the count
alone: over-reporting costs a redundant sync, under-reporting costs the
user their edits.
m_editedAccounts is drained in the same place, before flushHeldEdits()
and matching the local path's ordering. Item 49 uses it to choose which
mbsync channels a run syncs, and a count that reached zero while the set
stayed full would look correct and still sync the wrong channels.
The log path comes from a new optional [sync] log key, defaulting to
where the script writes, so a test never reads the developer's own log.
Two notes on the verification, both recorded in the backlog:
- A timing probe endorsed a tail read that was not happening. The
first version of the huge-log test required the call under 100 ms
and passed with the seek deleted, because reading 10 MB is fast
either way. Replaced with an assertion on content.
- Every fixture was invented and the first batch had the wrong
timestamp format, since the script uses date -Iseconds. The tests
passed anyway, because the parser keys on the prefix and the status
token. One test now builds the banner the way the script does.
The before-flushHeldEdits ordering has no test: without a held lock the
flush is a no-op, so both orderings pass.
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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>
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Multi-select already worked by Ctrl+click and Shift+click, but nothing in
the UI said so and every tag action was keyboard-only, so the Ctrl+T tag
dialog could not be reached with a mouse at all.
Adds a select_all action on Ctrl+A, registered like every other action so
it reaches the Edit menu, the shortcut reference and [keys]; a right-click
menu on the thread list built from the same QActions rather than parallel
copies; a selection count in the status bar, which is the part that
actually teaches the feature by acknowledging a selection while it is
being built; and a note in the shortcut dialog for the mouse gestures,
which are view behaviour and cannot appear in the generated table.
A selection gesture must not open mail or mutate it. Selecting several
rows now blanks the message pane and cancels any pending mark-read,
rather than rendering each row swept through and queueing it to be marked
read.
Two Qt behaviours shaped this, both established by probe rather than from
memory:
- selectAll() emits no currentRowChanged at all and leaves the current
index invalid.
- currentRowChanged is emitted BEFORE the selection model is updated.
The second one caused two distinct faults. Collapsing a multi-row
selection back to one row reported the old count, so the guard swallowed
the load and the pane stayed blank; that case is handled in
onSelectionChanged, which sees the true count. And a Ctrl+click taking
the selection from one row to two also reported one, so the thread was
loaded, blanked, and then painted back when the queued reply returned
from the worker. By the third row the id was already cleared and the
reply was discarded, which is why the fault presented as an off-by-one in
the threshold rather than as a race.
Tests cover the synchronous half. The late-reply guard has no test:
MainWindow in tests has no worker, so threadLoaded never fires and the
repaint cannot be reproduced in process. Verified by hand instead.
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Four changes to the sync UI, three of them from using it.
The log pane could not be dismissed. It is hidden at construction and
shown on failure, and nothing ever hid it again, so a single failed sync
left it on screen until the application restarted. It now sits in a
container with its own Close button, and is 200px rather than 120,
because mbsync's output is wide and repetitive and the shorter pane
showed too little of it to read. It still appears only on failure, which
the user confirmed is what they want.
A sync gives no feedback while it runs. The status bar now carries an
indeterminate progress bar for the duration, and the Sync button is
disabled rather than left looking live. The bar is indeterminate on
purpose: mbsync reports no percentage and the script's output is
unstructured, so a bar filling left to right would be inventing a
fraction nobody knows. The log is also cleared at the start of each run,
since leaving the previous run's lines in place makes a stale failure
look like the current one.
The lock skip was reported as a failure. mailsync.sh exits when another
run holds the lock, and that was exit 1, which qtmaildir reads as "sync
failed": it showed the log pane and, on the exit path, told the user
their changes were still unsynced. With a cron timer every ten minutes,
a click landing inside a run is routine and none of that is true. The
script now exits 75 (EX_TEMPFAIL) and the window reports it as its own
case, saying a sync is already running. On the exit path it stays open
and says plainly that the other run is most likely carrying the changes
over but that this window cannot see it finish, rather than guessing
either way.
That last hedge is what item 27 records: the application cannot see a
sync it did not start. The user chose continuous polling of the lock file
over the narrower "only while quitting" version, and the entry notes that
the lock is already the signal, so no status file is needed, and that a
kernel lock cannot go stale where a written file can.
Verified against stub binaries: a second run while the lock is held exits
75 and says SKIPPED, while the run holding it completes at 0.
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Five hardcoded tags were the only ones reachable from the UI: archive,
delete, spam, flag and toggle_unread. For an application whose purpose is
organising mail by tag, applying any other one meant leaving for a
terminal. Item 26 of the usability backlog, raised by the user asking how
to add a tag and finding they could not.
One dialog rather than separate add and remove actions, at the user's
choice: filing something under a new tag while dropping inbox is one
thought, not two. Type tags to add or remove, comma separated, or clear a
checkbox to drop a tag already on the selection without retyping its
name.
Both fields complete against the tag list MainWindow already holds for
the query completer. Completion is a guard against typing shoppping
beside shopping, never a whitelist: inventing a tag is the entire point,
so any valid name goes through whether or not it exists yet.
Tri-state checkboxes carry the multi-thread case, and are where the risk
is. A tag on some selected threads shows partially checked, and leaving
it alone changes nothing; the opposite reading would silently tag threads
the user never looked at. A tag already on every thread and left checked
is likewise not a change and is not sent as one.
Tag names are validated before anything is applied, through a free
function so the rules are testable on their own. Empty, a leading dash
(notmuch's CLI reads it as removal, making such a tag a trap), whitespace
and control characters are refused by name and reason. Nothing is applied
until the whole set passes, since the user cannot tell which half of a
partial change landed.
TagDialog is pure UI: handed the vocabulary and the current state,
returning two lists, contacting no worker. That is what lets its fifteen
tests run without a notmuch database. Integration is a single call to the
existing tagSelected(), so undo, the optimistic model update, the
combined multi-row query and the completer refresh for a brand-new tag
all come for free.
One test assumption was wrong and the code was right: a case asserted
that QStringLiteral("null\0byte") truncates at the null and reads as
empty. It does not, so the null is caught as a control character. The
test was corrected rather than the validator.
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Tagging changes the notmuch index at once, but the mail store only hears
about it on the next sync, and nothing said so. Quitting with tagging
outstanding was silent. Items 18 and 19 of the usability backlog, built
together because the second needs the first's counter.
The counter cannot be QUndoStack::isClean(), which is the obvious
candidate and the wrong one: the undo stack is cleared on every query,
since its entries refer to rows the new result set discards. Tag a
thread, run any query, and the stack is empty while the change is still
unsynced. m_pendingEdits is its own count, incremented where a write is
CONFIRMED rather than where one is sent, so an optimistic update the
worker later rejects cannot leave the indicator claiming an edit that
never landed. Only a successful sync resets it: clearing on failure would
assert the changes had reached the mail store when the sync is exactly
what failed to put them there.
It is shown in the status bar, hidden entirely at zero, and described as
a lower bound rather than a guarantee, since an external notmuch run can
carry changes over without this application noticing.
On exit, sync_on_exit in [general] takes ask, always or never. Three
values rather than a bool because "prompt me", "just do it" and "do
nothing" are three behaviours and true/false expresses two; an unknown
value warns by name, since a typo there silently changes what happens to
unsynced work. The prompt offers three buttons for the same reason: a
user who hit Quit by mistake needs a way back that is not "sync". A sync
started at exit holds the window open until it finishes rather than being
killed mid-run, and a sync that FAILS does not quit, because quitting
there would discard the user's choice silently. With no sync command
configured the prompt degrades to a plain warning instead of offering a
sync that cannot run.
This is not a destructive-action confirmation of the kind CLAUDE.md
forbids. Those cover tag mutations, which keep undo instead of a dialog.
This asks about losing work at the one point where undo cannot help.
The tagsApplied lambda became a named slot, which is better structure and
also what lets a test drive it: the worker is deliberately parentless
because it moves to its own thread, so reaching it with findChild to emit
the real signal cannot work, and contorting the test to try was the wrong
instinct. Testing a modal needed its own care. A test that sends a close
event hangs forever if an unexpected dialog opens, because the modal
spins its own event loop; CloseProbe polls for activeModalWidget, closes
it and records that one appeared, turning "a dialog opened" into an
assertion rather than a hang.
Also removes a stray qDebug left in the open_thread action by the earlier
Enter-key investigation, which had reached two commits.
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Opening a thread left it tagged unread, so the unread count never
matched what had actually been read and the app was quietly wrong every
day it was used. Item 6 of the usability backlog.
A single-shot timer, armed when a thread is selected and restarted rather
than stacked, so arrowing down a list marks only the thread still
selected when it fires and not every one passed through. Configurable
through mark_read_delay_ms in [general], defaulting to 2000: zero marks
read at once, and any negative value disables the behaviour, which is why
the value is neither clamped nor warned about at either end.
The automatic change deliberately does NOT go on the undo stack. It
routes through sendThreadTagChange() rather than tagSelected(), because
undoing an action the user never took is worse than leaving a thread
read, and toggle_unread already gives them a direct way back. It still
funnels through the single applyTags path; what differs is only whether
the inverse is pushed, which is a window-level decision above the worker.
An explicit toggle_unread cancels any pending timer, or marking a thread
unread by hand would be reversed a moment later and the key would look
broken.
Two guards beyond the plan, both from asking what happens when a timer
outlives the thread it was armed for. Arming is skipped for a thread that
is not unread, so no write is scheduled that would change nothing, and
the handler re-checks that its thread is still selected and still unread
before writing, so a stale timer does nothing rather than tagging the
wrong thread.
The plan expected the rapid-arrow case to need a database and a manual
check. It needs neither: ThreadListModel takes threads through
appendBatch(), so the case is unit-tested. All three tests were confirmed
to fail against deliberately broken versions, one arming for read threads
and one creating a timer per selection instead of restarting one.
Item 7 is closed in the same pass. The user verified against real mail
that HTML messages already open as HTML, which is what the item asked
for, so it is recorded as done with no code changed. The prefer_html key
it floated was not added: nobody has asked to default to plain text, and
Ctrl+H already switches a thread by hand.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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MimeParser has filled To and Cc all along and HtmlBuilder simply never
interpolated them, so both were parsed on every message and then
discarded. The header strip showed the subject and a message count and
nothing else, which is item 2 of the usability backlog.
The header now adapts to what it can say honestly. A thread holding one
message shows From, To and Cc under the subject, where every field is
unambiguous. A thread holding several keeps showing the subject and the
count alone: the recipient differs message to message, and once the user
has replied there is no single address the thread is addressed to, so
naming one would be a guess presented as a fact. Per-message detail is
what the dialog is for.
That dialog lists Subject, From, To, Cc, Date and Message-Id for every
message, numbered when there is more than one, in a read-only plain-text
widget. Plain text is the security decision, not a stylistic one: these
values come from strangers and the dialog exists to show them verbatim,
so the format that cannot interpret markup is the right one. The header
label is RichText and every value interpolated into it is escaped, since
an unescaped From injects into the application's own chrome rather than
into the sandboxed page.
Reached by a Details... button beside the subject and by Ctrl+Shift+D.
Both, because a shortcut alone restates the complaint this backlog opened
with. The binding is shifted because Ctrl+D is delete, and the
destructive action keeps the key it already had rather than being moved
to make room.
An empty Cc omits its row instead of printing a label with nothing after
it. Both header shapes were rendered to PNG and inspected, not only
asserted.
The new button also exposed a latent flaw in an older test:
attachmentButtonLabels() identified attachment buttons by excluding the
one other button's label, so it counted the details button as an
attachment as soon as one existed. It now finds the bar by object name
and reads only its children.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pressing Return in the query bar moved focus to the thread list and left
the query unrun, so a query typed at the keyboard could not be executed
at all.
Return is bound to open_thread as a Qt::WindowShortcut, and a shortcut is
dispatched before the focused widget ever sees the key. Qt withholds a
plain-LETTER shortcut from an editable widget, which is why every other
binding in the map was safe here, but Return is not a letter and gets no
such protection: the action fired from inside the bar, its handler called
setFocus() on the thread list, and QLineEdit::returnPressed was never
emitted.
Accept the ShortcutOverride for Return and Enter on the query bar, which
tells Qt the focused widget wants the key as ordinary input and stops the
shortcut being dispatched. Narrow by design, one widget and one key, so
open_thread keeps working everywhere else in the window.
Three earlier hypotheses were tested and disproven before this one, and
two synthetic probes wrongly reported the binding as harmless: real input
sends ShortcutOverride first and only dispatches the shortcut if nothing
claims it, while QTest::keyClick skips that round trip entirely. The new
test drives the override exchange rather than the keystroke and fails
against the old code. The comment claiming no filter was needed said the
letter rule covered this case; it did not, and it now says so.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds the complete_query action, whose registration the assertion in
registerActions() has been demanding since keymap gained the name: a
known action nothing implements would have been a silently dead binding.
Also lands the QueryCompleter half of the manual trigger, which the
keymap commit left behind: triggerCompletion() and the focus-in filter
gated on completion_on_focus.
Tags refresh at startup, after a sync, and after a mutation introduces a
tag not already known, since that is the tag most likely to be typed
again. onAllTagsReady deliberately drops the generation the signal
carries: a tag list is not an ordered query result, so a later one is
always at least as good as an earlier one and discarding on staleness
could only throw away a good list.
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Replace QMessageBox::about with a QDialog laid out in two columns: the
application icon on the left at 40%, the version, description, copyright
and AI-assistance notice on the right at 60%. A full-width row below both
carries the project URL.
The copyright line, GPLv2 notice and AI-assistance disclosure were absent
from the About window despite being present in the source headers and the
README.
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An attachment was only discoverable by opening the thread. A narrow
leftmost column now marks the threads that carry one.
No new worker query is involved: notmuch applies the "attachment" tag
while indexing, so ThreadSummary already holds what this needs. The
marker is a glyph rather than an icon resource, which ships no new asset
and inherits the row font, so it strikes through with a doomed thread
like every other cell. It falls back to "*" where the system font cannot
draw U+1F4CE, since an unrenderable codepoint reads as breakage rather
than as a marker.
Two silent Qt behaviours had to be handled, both found by probe:
QHeaderView::restoreState() returns true for a blob saved against fewer
columns and applies the old widths shifted one place right. Adding a
column in front would therefore have mangled every existing saved
layout with no error to detect it by. The column count is now stored
beside the blob and a mismatch discards it, so the widths reset once on
upgrade instead of landing on the wrong columns.
QHeaderView's default minimumSectionSize is 58px on this platform, and
setColumnWidth() clamps to it without reporting the smaller value back,
so the column could not be narrow at all until it was lowered.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The app opened whichever saved query sorted first alphabetically, which
is not a choice anyone made: [queries] is read through childKeys(), so
savedQueries().first() means "Flagged" before "Inbox" before "Unread"
rather than anything the user expressed.
[general] startup_query names the entry to open and defaults to Unread,
so a fresh install comes up on the unified unread list. Saved-query
button order is untouched and stays alphabetical.
A name matching no saved query falls back to the first one rather than
starting with an empty view. That is reported as a problem only when the
user actually wrote the name; the built-in default naming a query they
never created is not something they got wrong, and warning about it
would fire on every launch of a config that has no Unread entry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Zoom was Chromium's, not the application's: the web view handled the
keys natively and never told anyone, so there was no value to save.
qtmaildir now owns it. Zoom in, out and reset are real actions, in the
View menu and rebindable through [keys], and the factor is persisted to
the UI state file. Ctrl+wheel over the body zooms and Ctrl+middle-click
resets, both filtered by ancestry from an application-level filter: the
events are delivered to an internal QQuickWidget the web view creates
lazily, so a filter on the view itself never sees them.
The factor is clamped to 0.5 - 3.0, and NaN, infinity, zero and negative
values fall back to 1.0, since a corrupt state file must not be able to
leave the pane unreadable with no visible way back.
Both risks the plan flagged turned out not to exist, verified by probe
rather than assumed. The application QAction wins over the web view's
native zoom key, so the tracked factor cannot diverge from what is on
screen. And the factor survives setHtml(), so the web view is the single
source of truth and needs no reapply per render.
A third finding is worth recording because it produced a wrong fix
first. A probe using QTest::keyClick() reported Ctrl++ as a dead
binding, and a test was written asserting that. Both were wrong: Ctrl++
is exactly what the '+' key emits on an Italian layout, confirmed
against the real keyboard, and it is the shipped default. Whether a
symbol needs Shift is a property of the layout, not of Qt, and
keyClick() reproduces neither. The test now only checks that every
default parses, and the comment in defaultBindings() says not to
re-derive this from synthetic input.
Ctrl+= is a second binding for reset, skipped when [keys] gives it to
something else.
Also fixes a pre-existing bug the new config key exposed. [general]
entries were read as "general/<key>", which matches nothing: QSettings'
INI backend treats a section literally named [general] as its own
fallback section and strips the prefix. notmuch_config had therefore
never worked. Both keys are now read without it; the file format is
unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Resizing the window, the splitter or a thread-list column was undone by
the next launch. State now round-trips through a separate settings file
at ~/.local/state/qtmaildir/uistate.conf, written on close and read at
startup.
The state file is deliberately not the user's config: a base64 geometry
blob does not belong in a hand-edited file, and rewriting that file on
exit would drop its comments and key order, which QSettings does not
preserve.
Two details that are easy to get wrong:
QStandardPaths::StateLocation appends both the organization and the
application name, and both are "qtmaildir" here, so it resolves to
~/.local/state/qtmaildir/qtmaildir. The path is built from
GenericStateLocation instead, matching Config::defaultPath().
Restore runs after buildMenus() rather than at the end of buildUi():
QMainWindow::restoreState() matches toolbars by object name and silently
drops the position of one that does not exist yet.
Every restore is conditional on a non-empty blob, so a missing or
rejected state file leaves the built-in defaults instead of producing a
zero-size window.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Two optional keys in an [account.<key>] stanza. color fills the chip,
label sets its text.
Both belong to the account rather than to [tagcolors] because an account
tag is a different taxonomy: which mailbox a thread arrived in, not what
state it is in.
label is display only. "account-provider-work" is a lot of
row for one bit of information, but the notmuch tag is never renamed, so
existing queries and external tagging are unaffected. Unset falls back to
the account key, and an empty label is ignored rather than rendering a
blank chip.
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Subject was Stretch, which computes its own width and discards a drag, so
it alone could not be resized. Every column is Interactive now.
Nothing absorbs spare width as a consequence, so the view scrolls
horizontally instead of squeezing columns when their total exceeds the
viewport. Per-pixel, so scrolling does not jump a column at a time.
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Tags, Date and From were set to ResizeToContents while fixing the
pushed-off-screen Tags column. That mode computes the width itself and
discards a drag, so the columns stopped being resizable. Verified: with
ResizeToContents a request for 250px yields 150, with Stretch 478, with
Interactive 250.
The reorder alone already fixed the original bug, since Subject stretches
and is last, so nothing can be pushed past it. Locking the other three
was unnecessary and also blocked the saved-column-widths item, which
needs widths a user can actually set.
They are Interactive again, with starting widths a drag overrides.
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Selecting a thread and hitting Delete changed nothing on screen, so
there was no way to tell the action had stuck.
The tag was always applied: applyTagChange() emitted dataChanged across
the row, and the Tags column did update. But Subject was set to stretch
while Tags came after it, so Subject took all free width and pushed Tags
out of view. The feedback lived in the one column that could not be seen.
Columns are now Tags, Date, From, Subject, with Subject stretching last
so nothing can be pushed off the right edge. A thread tagged deleted or
spam fills its whole row, muted red or orange with white struck-through
text, through the background, foreground and font roles, so no cue
depends on one column remaining visible.
Strike-through accompanies the fill on purpose: it survives a theme that
overrides backgrounds and reads without colour. Bold for unread still
composes with it.
Archive adds no tag, so an archived row is left unstyled for now.
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Fourteen actions in one table made a dialog taller than the display,
which pushed its own title bar off the top. The rows are split into two
columns of seven, with the closing note spanning both.
QMessageBox is replaced by a plain QDialog. The message box wraps its
text at a narrow fixed width, which broke every description into a
column of single words and was most of the height: 719x1084 before,
1426x366 after.
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