Settings get a page of their own for accessibility, with presets on top
(screen reader, low vision, dyslexia, focus, keyboard and motor, motion
and seizure safe, deaf and hard of hearing) that change several options
at once and can be undone, then the options by topic, and a reset.
Text size used to be a fixed 14/16/18px on the root, which threw away
the size people set in their browser. It is now a percentage of the
browser's size, from 87.5% to 200%. Motion, contrast and transparency
follow the system by default and can be overridden either way; the
old Animations switch becomes Reduce motion. The visual options are
applied before the first paint, so the page no longer flashes at the
wrong size.
- `lib/accessibility-settings.ts`: the new settings, their allowed
values, and the code that writes them onto `<html>`
- `app/accessibility.css`: bundled fonts (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next,
Lexend, OpenDyslexic), text spacing, a focus outline that survives
Windows contrast themes, more-contrast colours on any theme, reduced
transparency, a large pointer
- admins can preset every new option but lock only shortcuts, send
confirmation and the notification duration; a lock on text size or
another reading aid works as a default
- always-light mail and toolbar labels now sync, and imports drop
values the page doesn't know
- font size and animations move off Appearance, the plain text font
off Reading; everyday settings such as conversation view and undo
send show on both their own page and Accessibility
A new feature gate, archiveActionEnabled (default on), lets the admin turn the
Archive action off for installations that archive mail elsewhere, such as a
mail gateway. With it off, Bulwark offers no Archive anywhere: the viewer's
button and its overflow entry, the context menu for one or several messages,
Mountain View's selection bar, the hover and swipe actions, the E shortcut and
its help row, archiving after an export, and the archive mode setting (also in
the settings search). With it off nothing creates an Archive folder:
ensureArchiveMailbox returns null. Existing Archive folders stay ordinary
folders, moving mail into them by hand still works, and the plugin API is
unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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/).
Switching folders currently keeps an active search applied and re-runs
it in the newly selected folder — deliberate behavior from #553, where
users wanted the query to follow them across folders. Others expect the
opposite: clicking Inbox/Sent should drop the search and just browse the
folder.
Add an opt-in setting (Settings → email behavior) that reconciles both.
Default is off, so #553's search-follows-you behavior is unchanged for
everyone. When on, any folder click clears the text query and advanced
filters and browses the folder instead of re-running the search.
Applied uniformly across the four folder-entry paths in MailApp — normal
mailboxes, per-account (Pro sidebar) folders, unified views, and cross
views — via one helper so no path diverges.
Adds Gmail-style horizontal swipe actions to message rows on touch
devices. Swiping a row past a threshold fires a configurable action and
snaps back; a coloured background with an icon is revealed under the
finger and grows when the release would commit.
- New `useSwipeActions` hook: claims a touch as a swipe only once the
horizontal travel dominates (vertical stays native list scrolling via
`touch-action: pan-y`, no preventDefault), resists past the commit
distance, and suppresses the tap that would otherwise follow.
- Two settings (Settings -> reading/email behavior): "Swipe right
action" (default Archive) and "Swipe left action" (default Delete),
each one of none / archive / delete / toggle read / toggle star /
spam. A direction set to an action the current folder does not expose
simply does nothing.
- Composes with the existing long-press (context menu) handlers; desktop
is unchanged (hover actions + right-click).
- Scoped to single-message rows; unit tests cover commit/short-drag/
no-action-side/vertical-scroll/tap-suppression.
Per review: gate the return-to-list behaviour behind a setting,
returnToListAfterAction, defaulting to true (the Gmail/Yahoo default). When off,
deleting the open message keeps the previous auto-advance-to-next behaviour.
Adds the setting to the store (persisted), a toggle under Reading settings, and
i18n keys across all locales (English; non-English need translation). The same
setting will govern mark-as-unread (#468).
Linus Rath
Jacob ZeitzandClaude Opus 5.5
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Shuki Vaknin