Dark mode used to invert the whole message body with a CSS filter and
re-invert images and coloured cells. Brand colours came out shifted
(red turned pink), white cells set through bgcolor stayed white, and
the result changed after loading remote content because the blocker
strips the background attributes the selectors relied on.
The rendered body is now read back through computed styles and its
colours are rewritten in place: light backgrounds are darkened in their
own hue, vivid and dark fills stay as sent, text and borders only change
when they lack contrast, and anything painted on a background image is
left alone. Transparent dark images get their original light background
behind them when their pixels show they would vanish. The thread
conversation view uses the same pass.
Also fixed along the way:
- blocking remote content dropped every leading `<style>` block, so
mails lost their CSS until images were loaded
- a mail's `prefers-color-scheme` rules followed the OS instead of the
app theme
Cancelling an upload ended the loop like a normal finish, and the Files
app then reported every picked file as uploaded. Uploads now return how
many files went up and whether they were cancelled, so a cancel shows
"Upload canceled" (with the count of files that made it, if any).
Folder uploads also passed no cancel signal or progress callback to the
blob upload, so Cancel did not stop the file in flight and the progress
line stood still; they now behave like file uploads.
Uploads in Files had their own card with a thick progress bar, larger
corners and a heavier shadow, so they looked unlike the toasts around
them.
Toasts can now show work in progress: the thin line at the bottom fills
with progress instead of counting down, and the toast stays until it is
updated or removed. Uploads use it, with the file and percentage below
the title and Cancel as the toast action.
The image viewer only zoomed with its buttons, scaled the image inside
a fixed box so a zoomed image could not be moved, and the area around
the image swallowed clicks, so clicking beside it did nothing.
Both the Files image viewer and the attachment preview now use one
viewer that:
- zooms with the wheel, trackpad or two-finger pinch, centred on the
pointer, and with a zoom bar at the bottom (-, percentage, +, fit,
rotate)
- toggles between fit and full size on double-click or double-tap
- pans by dragging, or with the arrow keys, while zoomed
- closes on a click or tap beside the image, but not after a drag
- keeps + / - / 0 / r as shortcuts and Escape to close
The Files app had two layouts (folders inline or in a tree), a back bar
and a permanent warning above the list, a toolbar of ten unlabelled
icons, and a Recent list whose entries did nothing. In the tree layout
folders could not be renamed or deleted at all, and the default view,
default sort and hidden-files settings were ignored.
It now follows the contacts and calendar layout:
- a full-height sidebar with a "+" New menu, My files with the folder
tree, Starred, Recent and Shared with me; folders accept dropped items
- a header with collapsing breadcrumbs (also drop targets), search, sort,
list/grid switch and a details toggle; selecting items swaps it for an
action bar
- list rows open from the name and select from the row, with hover
actions; the grid shows folders as chips and files as cards with
lazy, cached thumbnails
- a details panel for the selection or the current folder, empty-folder
and no-results states, a floating upload card, a dismissible
stability warning, and keyboard navigation with the arrow keys
- touch: tap opens, long-press selects, a "+" button in narrow panes
The tree is built from the listing the store already fetches instead of
one full fetch per folder, so it is current after every change. Recent
files open in their folder, and the settings for view, sort, hidden
files and icons now apply. The inline/sidebar setting is gone.
The calendar bar spanned both the sidebar and the grid, and the sidebar
opened with a full-width primary "Create event" button. Neither exists
in mail or contacts, so the calendar looked like a different app.
- the sidebar runs full height with a title row and a "+" button, like
the contacts sidebar
- the view bar sits over the grid only and uses the density header
padding, so its border lines up with the sidebar header
- calendar rows and section headers follow the contacts sidebar: full
width 32px rows, chevron on the left
Each day is now one row: the date on the left (a large day number,
today in a filled circle, with the short weekday and month and a
Today or Tomorrow label) and its events beside it. Every event shows
its time range in a column of its own, then the calendar dot and the
title, with location and calendar on one muted line below. The grey
day header bars are gone.
On wide screens a month row keeps its height instead of growing for
the busiest day. A day with more entries than fit shows the first ones
and a "+N more" link that opens the day view, and clicking a date
number opens that day too. Today keeps the filled circle and the
selected day is tinted instead of looking the same. Phones still grow
the row to fit and open a day by tapping the cell.
On wide screens a click on an event now opens its card next to it
instead of the side panel. The card stays until it is closed and has
edit, delete, more and close buttons at the top, a square in the
event's colour beside the title, and a line naming the calendar.
More opens the same menu as a right-click (duplicate, export, copy).
Delete asks for confirmation inside the card, and edit goes straight
to the form. Hover previews still work as before while no card is
open. Phones keep opening the full editor.
Clicking or dragging over empty time in the week or day view used to
open the full event panel. On wide screens it now draws the new event
at that spot as a "(No title)" block and opens a small editor beside
it with a title field, the picked time, a calendar picker, Save and
"More options". More options carries the title, time and calendar
over into the full editor. Enter saves, Escape or a click elsewhere
discards. Phones keep opening the full editor.
The placeholder for an event being created is now drawn like a saved
event, in the calendar's colour, instead of a dashed outline.
The week and day headers now show a small weekday above a large date,
with today's date in a filled circle and its weekday in the primary
colour. Clicking a date in the week header opens that day in the day
view. The all-day row moved below the dates, where it lines up with
the columns it belongs to.
The current time line is thicker with a larger dot at the start of
today's column, and events shorter than 45 minutes show their start
time next to the title instead of hiding it.
The calendar list in the sidebar now works like Google Calendar's:
- "My calendars" and a new "Other calendars" section (shared
calendars, still grouped by owner) fold away, and stay folded
- each calendar has a checkbox filled in its colour with a check mark
- hovering a calendar shows an options button that opens the same
menu as a right-click
In the mini month, today is the filled circle and the selected day is
tinted, so the two no longer look alike.
The previous commit copied Google Calendar's look along with its
layout. The bar and the sidebar now use the webmail's regular buttons,
sizes and title style again; only the arrangement stays: menu button,
Today and arrows with the title, the view menu on the right and the
create button at the top of the sidebar.
The bar now spans the sidebar and the grid. It starts with a menu
button that hides or shows the sidebar (remembered across visits),
then a pill Today button, the arrows and a large period title. On
the right a view menu lists Day, Week, Month and Agenda (and Tasks)
with their shortcut keys, and import and subscribe moved into a
"more actions" menu instead of a button of their own.
The Create button moved to the top of the sidebar. While the sidebar
is hidden or an overlay, a compact create button sits in the bar.
The x shortcut passed the bare email id, which the key-based selection
no longer accepts. It now passes the email, so the toggle hits the
right account's row in unified views.
Batch delete grouped the selection by bare email id, so with the same
id in two accounts, permanent-deleting B's row destroyed A's message
and left B's alone. Copy had the same lookup and went out through the
wrong account.
- resolve the selection to email objects by key, including ticked
members of an expanded thread that are not list rows
- delete, move, mark read, tag and copy group by those objects
- rows, thread checkboxes, drag and drop compare by key, so ticked
rows show as checked in unified and tag views
- the Mountain View toolbar uses the same resolver
Linus Rath