# Changelog All notable changes to this project are documented here. The format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/), and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html). While the version is below 1.0.0, the configuration file format and the keybinding action names may change in a minor release. 1.0.0 will mark the point at which they are stable. ## [Unreleased] Nothing yet. ## [0.3.0] - 2026-08-03 The app remembers how you left it. Window, splitter and column sizes survive a restart, the message pane owns its zoom and keeps it, and startup opens the query you asked for rather than whichever one sorted first. ### Added - Window geometry, splitter position and thread-list column widths persist across restarts. Machine-written state lives in a separate file, `~/.local/state/qtmaildir/uistate.conf`, and never touches the hand-edited config: a base64 geometry blob does not belong in a file you edit, and rewriting that file on exit would drop its comments and key order. - The message pane owns its zoom, which is remembered across restarts. It was previously the web engine's own behavior, invisible to the application, which is why there was nothing to save. | Gesture | Does | |---|---| | `Ctrl++` | Zoom in | | `Ctrl+-` | Zoom out | | `Ctrl+0`, `Ctrl+=` | Actual size | | `Ctrl`+wheel | Zoom in and out | | `Ctrl`+middle-click | Actual size | All three actions appear in the View menu and are rebindable through `[keys]` as `zoom_in`, `zoom_out` and `zoom_reset`. The factor is clamped to 0.5 - 3.0. - `[general] message_zoom` sets the starting zoom for a profile that has never zoomed. Once you zoom, the state file remembers that instead. - `[general] startup_query` names the saved query to open at startup, and defaults to `Unread`. ### Changed - **Startup no longer opens `savedQueries().first()`.** `[queries]` is read through `childKeys()`, which sorts alphabetically, so the query that opened was whichever name sorted first rather than one you chose. It is now selected by name. If your `[queries]` has no entry named `Unread`, set `[general] startup_query` to the one you want, or you will keep getting the alphabetically first one. Saved-query button order is unchanged. ### Fixed - **`[general]` keys were never read.** They were looked up as `general/`, 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 been silently ignored since it was introduced. If you set it and wondered why nothing changed, it works now. The file format is unchanged. ## [0.2.0] - 2026-08-03 Menus, a toolbar and an in-app shortcut reference, so the app is usable without memorizing keys. Tags render as coloured chips rather than a column of text. Three default keybindings that had never worked now do. ### Added - Tags render as coloured chips instead of text in a column. The account tag sits in front of the subject in the thread list, and the functional tags fill a single row under the message pane, with anything that does not fit collapsing into a `+N` chip whose tooltip names the rest. - `[tagcolors]` config group. Colours resolve by exact tag first, then by top-level prefix, so one `shopping` entry covers `shopping/amazon` and `shopping/nike` while `shopping/amazon` can still override its own. Built-in defaults cover the usual state tags; anything unconfigured gets a stable colour derived from its name. - `color` and `label` keys in an account stanza, setting the account chip's fill and its text. `label` shortens a long key for display only and renames nothing in notmuch; unset falls back to the key. - The application icon is now used: window icon, a `.desktop` entry, and install rules placing both into `hicolor` and `share/applications`. - Toolbar and menu actions carry icons from the system theme, falling back to text where a theme lacks one. - Menu bar covering every action: File, Edit, Message, View and Help. - Toolbar with the frequent subset, Sync, Archive, Delete and Undo. - **Help > Keyboard shortcuts**, listing the current bindings. Generated from the actions themselves, so it shows configured overrides rather than a hand-written copy of the defaults. - **Help > About**. - Default bindings for `spam` and `load_remote`, which previously had none and were unreachable until bound by hand. ### Fixed - Acting on a thread now visibly changes its row. A thread tagged `deleted` or `spam` is filled dark red or orange, in white struck-through text, across every column. The tag change was already applied, but `Tags` sat after the stretching `Subject` column and was pushed off-screen, so Delete looked like it had done nothing. - Thread list columns are Date, From and Subject, all resizable. The tags column is gone: spelling out a dozen tags per row consumed most of the list's width. Widening past the viewport scrolls horizontally rather than squeezing the other columns. - Hierarchical tags in `[tagcolors]` were silently ignored. QSettings treats `/` in a key as a group separator, so `shopping/amazon` becomes a nested key that `childKeys()` never returns, and every tag containing a `/` fell through to its prefix. - Three default bindings never fired. Typing a capital sends `Shift`+the key, but `N`, `F` and `G` were stored as the unshifted key, which no keystroke produces, leaving `toggle_unread`, `flag` and `sync` dead. A bare capital in `[keys]` is now read as `Shift`+that letter. As a side effect `y` and `Y` are two distinct keys rather than a collision that silently dropped one. - Modifier shortcuts such as `Ctrl+Q` now work while the query bar has focus. The old event filter suppressed every binding there, not only the plain letters that would have interfered with typing. ### Changed - Default bindings moved to modifier shortcuts. **A `[keys]` section written for 0.1.0 keeps working and keeps the old keys**, which also means it hides every new default: delete the section to adopt them, or rebind individually. Single letters are still safe to bind, since Qt suppresses a plain-letter shortcut while the query bar has focus. | Action | 0.1.0 | 0.2.0 | |---|---|---| | `next_thread` | `j` | `Ctrl+J` | | `prev_thread` | `k` | `Ctrl+K` | | `open_thread` | `Return` | `Return` | | `archive` | `a` | `Ctrl+E` | | `delete` | `d` | `Ctrl+D` | | `spam` | *(unbound)* | `Ctrl+Shift+S` | | `toggle_unread` | `N` *(never fired)* | `Ctrl+U` | | `flag` | `F` *(never fired)* | `Ctrl+I` | | `focus_query` | `/` | `Ctrl+L` | | `toggle_html` | `h` | `Ctrl+H` | | `load_remote` | *(unbound)* | `Ctrl+M` | | `undo` | `u` | `Ctrl+Z` | | `sync` | `G` *(never fired)* | `Ctrl+G` | | `quit` | `Ctrl+Q` | `Ctrl+Q` | Action names are unchanged, so no existing binding becomes invalid. - Actions are `QAction`s dispatched by shortcut rather than a hash of callbacks behind an event filter, which is what lets them appear in menus. The hand-maintained list of registered action names is now derived from the actions, so it can no longer drift from them. ## [0.1.0] - 2026-08-03 First release. Reads and organizes a local notmuch-indexed Maildir; it does no network protocol work at all, since fetching and sending are left to external commands. ### Added - Permanent notmuch query bar with saved-query buttons and per-account scoping, over a two-pane thread list and message view. - Threads streamed from the database in batches of 200, so a query over tens of thousands of threads paints its first rows immediately and fills in behind. Measured at 21 ms to the first batch against a 36,000-thread database. - Whole-thread rendering: every message in a thread renders into one document, oldest first, with messages that did not match the current query collapsed to one-line stubs. The last message always renders expanded, so a thread is never nothing but stubs. - HTML mail rendered through QtWebEngine, with a locked-down profile: off-the-record, no cookies, no cache, JavaScript disabled, and a deny-by-default request interceptor. Remote content is blocked until the user asks for it, which defeats tracking pixels and read receipts; the grant applies to one render and is never remembered. - Inline `cid:` images served from an in-memory map scoped to the displayed thread. References are namespaced per message, so two newsletters sharing a Content-ID do not resolve to each other's images. - Attachment handling that treats MIME filenames as untrusted: names are reduced to a basename and refused if the resolved path escapes the chosen directory. - Tagging (archive, delete, spam, flag, read/unread, custom) over a multi-thread selection, applied optimistically and reverted if the write fails. Thread ids are resolved to message ids in a single combined query rather than one query per thread. - Undo for tag changes, backed by a `QUndoStack`. Entries store thread ids and re-resolve them, so undo stays correct after the selection moves on. There is deliberately no dry-run and no destructive-action confirmation: undo is the better answer for a human at a GUI. - Sync by running the user's existing script through `QProcess`, joining the `flock` that already serializes it against cron rather than reimplementing mbsync orchestration. - Configurable keybindings via the `[keys]` section, validated against a known action list so a typo warns instead of binding silently. - `--version` and `--help`. ### Known limitations - Compose and send are not implemented; they are planned for v2 and need a companion send script that does not exist yet. - A thread renders as a flat chronological list. Reply structure is available from notmuch but is not drawn as an indented tree. - MIME parsing happens on the UI thread. Opening a very long thread parses every message in it, which could stutter; deferred until measured. - The sync log pane shows what the sync command writes to stdout and stderr. A script that redirects its own output to a file will leave the pane empty.