A new feature gate, tagsAboveSharedEnabled (default off, so the sidebar
keeps its order), lists the Tags section above the shared mailboxes
instead of below them. With many shared mailboxes expanded, the tags
otherwise end up out of sight. In Mountain View the tags then follow the
Labels list directly, also when More is open.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The demo user becomes Nora Lindqvist, engineering lead at Meridian Labs,
in the week of a product launch. The fixtures tell one story across mail,
contacts, calendar, tasks and files, and exercise the features the
screenshots and the public demo should show:
- a second, mail-only login (her personal domain) and the shared Support
mailbox delegated to the work account, so the account switcher, the
shared section and the merged inbox have real content
- raw headers the way Stalwart writes them: the sender check fails on
the phishing mail, newsletters carry a one-click unsubscribe, one mail
asks for a read receipt, and spam scores show in the details
- an iMIP invitation with a served .ics, an event waiting for the answer
on the calendar, and RSVP patches applied in the demo client
- @mentions as mailto links in a received mail, a verification code
twelve minutes old, nested folders, named tags on the mail, contact
groups, a scheduled message and tasks switched on
- every attachment and file backed by real bytes under public/demo,
generated by `scripts/demo-assets/generate.mjs`; contact photos are
bundled portraits instead of requests to randomuser.me
- folder counts computed from the mail instead of hand-kept numbers
Demo login seeds the tags, templates and merged-inbox settings once per
device and switches the cross-account gate on for the session; "Reset"
restores them. `bulwark-demo-simulate=off` in localStorage stops the
simulated incoming mail for screenshot runs.
With the navigation collapsed, Mountain View gives the sidebar a 72px
column, but the sidebar inside kept the default layout's 48px width. The
round compose button was cut in half, the selected folder's highlight
ran off the edge, and an empty strip showed before the message list.
- The refresh button was labelled "Loading" and the overflow menu
"Mark folder as read"; they now say Refresh and More actions.
- The Starred row stayed highlighted while a tag was open, and its icon
ignored the colourful-icons setting.
- Reply, Reply all and Forward use the standard small button size.
- With a single login the account popover offers one Sign out pill
instead of a pill-less footer row.
- The compose backdrop matches the other dialogs.
- Layout settings hide the mail layout and toolbar label options, which
do nothing under Mountain View; their values still apply to the
default layout.
Add an "Interface layout" setting at the top of Settings > Layout with two
options, Default and Mountain View. Default is the existing layout and stays
the default, so nothing changes unless a user opts in.
Mountain View rearranges the chrome while keeping the theme's colours, icons
and type:
- desktop: a top bar with a wide search field (filters drop from the field),
an apps grid and the account avatar instead of the left app rail; flat
navigation with Starred under Inbox and the rest behind "More"; a Compose
pill; one list toolbar with select-all, refresh, overflow menu, a 1-N of
total range and the batch actions; rows led by a checkbox and a star; an
icon-only message toolbar with Reply / Reply all / Forward under the
message; compose in a docked window; an account popover with per-account
unread counts; j/k cursor, x to select and g-sequences
- phone: rounded search header, compact rows with the star on the preview
line, and Reply / Reply all / Forward at the end of a message instead of
the bottom action bar
It is one setting (`interfaceLayout`), written to a data attribute on <html>
that keys a block of CSS tokens in globals.css, plus a few components gated
on the flag. The mail layout in force is derived (effectiveMailLayout), so
the user's saved mail layout is never rewritten. The setting is listed in
the admin policy tab, and the new strings are translated in all locales.
Includes unit tests and a Playwright smoke test against a running instance
(scripts/mountain-view-smoke/).
An aria-label on a plain span is not reliably read out, so the count
now comes with a visually hidden label and the digits themselves are
hidden from screen readers. Also reuses the sidebar's existing accounts
selector instead of subscribing to the same list twice.
After a load the logins other than the one on screen reconnect in the
background, and until they are all back the unified counts cover only
some of them. With many logins that lasts seconds, and a partial total
looks exactly like the whole one.
While that restore runs, the "All accounts" header shows how many logins
are already in the scope, e.g. "4/10", with a translated label for screen
readers. It goes away when the scope is complete or the restore is over -
a login that failed to reconnect does not keep it up.
`restoringAccounts` in the auth store marks the background restore; the
count itself is a pure function with its own tests.
Linus Rath
Jacob ZeitzandClaude Opus 5.5
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