Vireo 1.20.x

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Discussion for Vireo 1.20.x releases

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Beta: 1.20.0-beta.1

A feature beta previewing 1.20.0, on the beta channel only. Install or update:

flatpak install --from https://vireo.hyprlab.co/flatpak/co.hyprlab.Vireo.Beta.flatpakref

What's in it:

• Spell checking in the composer (discussion Spell checking in the composer: cheap to switch on, awkward to get dictionaries for #114). Red underlines in the message body and the subject line, including the word being typed: the subject checks as you type and picks up the current word after a short pause; the body checks the word at the caret the same way. Settings has a new Spelling section with an on/off switch, a language dropdown listing only the dictionaries the app can actually use (each named in its own language), and an "Added words" list for managing what "Learn Spelling" has saved. The Flatpak now bundles dictionaries for German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Russian, Swedish and Ukrainian alongside English.
• Inline images in the composer (discussion Inline images in the composer: put the picture in the message, not under it #113). Paste or drop a picture and it lands in the text at the cursor, scaled to a sensible size. Click an image to select it (delete, cut and copy all work on it), and right-click for "Send as Attachment Instead". Sent messages carry the pictures as inline parts, so they render in place for the recipient and stay out of the attachment list.
• Replies follow Reply-To. A message with a Reply-To header is answered at that address instead of its From line, and Reply All keeps that address out of Cc. Mail cached by earlier versions picks this up as folders re-sync.
• Grab handles. The split reply and the attachment drawer are both resized by a thin floating bar. The split reply keeps the height you set (pasting long text no longer pushes it down over the messages) and slides out on send or cancel the way it slid in. The drawer's bar replaces the chevron: click to collapse or expand (animated), drag to resize, and dragging a collapsed drawer opens it to wherever you let go.
• Paste is plain text by default. Ctrl+V strips formatting; right-click always offers "Paste with Formatting" and "Paste as Plain Text"; the default can be flipped in Settings.
• Attachment fixes (Attachments under 64 KiB are dropped when the sender sets a Content-ID (web Gmail) #109, A labelled Gmail message has its attachments downloaded and stored once per label #111, A filename split across two RFC 2047 encoded-words keeps the separator, losing its extension #117 via PRs List a small attachment the sender declared, Content-ID and all #110, Fetch a message's attachments once, not once per Gmail label #112, Join a filename the sender split across two encoded-words #118). Attachments under 64 KiB sent from web Gmail are no longer dropped from the list; a labelled Gmail message's attachments are downloaded once instead of once per label; and filenames split across two RFC 2047 encoded-words are rejoined so they keep their extension. The attachment cache is rebuilt once on upgrade, so mail synced by affected versions heals as well.
• Scrolling always works over messages wider than the reading pane; wide mail can be panned sideways in place.
• "Add Sender to Contacts" in the message list's right-click menu.
• Discord in the About window's links.

Code and reports in this beta: @typedev (PRs #110, #112, #118; issues #109, #111, #117; discussions #113, #114).

x86_64 only, as with every beta. The PRs and issues above stay open until these changes ship in stable 1.20.0.

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Beta: 1.20.0-beta.2

Polish on beta.1's composer work, from first-round testing. Update:

flatpak update co.hyprlab.Vireo.Beta

What changed:

• Smooth composer entrances and exits. The split reply now slides in the way it slides out, New Message's slide actually plays, and closing either slides away instead of blinking out. The editor fades in as its content is ready, so nothing pops in after the panel settles.
• A slimmer split reply. While a reply is open the reader hides its own header bar, which was showing a second set of window buttons mid-window and spending vertical space the reply needs. The visible reader starts at the remote-content banner, or the subject block when the banner is off; the header returns when the reply closes.
• A findable drawer handle. The attachment drawer's grab bar now reads on dark message content (it was invisible in dark mode), and its whole edge answers clicks and drags: click anywhere along the seam to collapse or expand, grab anywhere along it to resize.

x86_64 only, as with every beta.

[hyprlab]

Beta: 1.20.0-beta.3

Attachment-drawer fixes from beta.2 testing. Update:

flatpak update co.hyprlab.Vireo.Beta

What changed:

• Collapsing the drawer no longer flashes. The divider was briefly jumping up to fit the still-visible body before settling; state and constraints now change in the right order and the slide lands cleanly.
• A resized drawer reopens at the height it was dragged to. The same mis-ordering could occasionally overwrite the remembered height; drags also record their height directly now.
• The whole seam answers. The grab zone is taller, the separator strip between reader and drawer toggles on click as well as dragging, and the drawer's topmost few pixels toggle too, so there is no dead zone to hunt around between the handle and the edge.

x86_64 only, as with every beta.

[hyprlab]

Beta: 1.20.0-beta.4

The attachment drawer's seam, finished, from beta.3 testing. Update:

flatpak update co.hyprlab.Vireo.Beta

What changed:

• The dead click zone is gone at its root. GtkPaned attaches its own hidden capture-phase gestures to the pane, hit-testing an enlarged handle area; they were claiming presses near the seam before the app's handle ever saw them, which is why the cursor and hover kept working while clicks died. Those gestures are removed and the seam is entirely the app's own.
• One continuous handle: the full-width grab zone, a hairline separator, and an edge strip inside the drawer's top that clicks, drags, and lights the bar on hover, all under one cursor.
• Cursors now match their seams: the split reply's handle shows the row-resize cursor like its live separator; the drawer keeps the plain double arrows.

x86_64 only, as with every beta.

[hyprlab]

Beta: 1.20.0-beta.5

Instant cached mail at startup, and an optional tray icon. Update:

flatpak update co.hyprlab.Vireo.Beta

What changed:

• Messages already on disk open the instant they are clicked, even while the startup sync is still running. Each account's worker handles requests one at a time, so a click on a cached message used to wait behind whatever sync, backfill, or attachment prefetch was in progress. A cache lane now answers cached bodies, attachment lists, and conversation lookups on its own thread and hands only network work to the worker.
• An optional tray icon ([Feature Request] Optional tray icon indicator and modified notification #116) for desktops that draw StatusNotifierItems: Cinnamon, KDE, MATE, XFCE, and GNOME with the AppIndicator extension. The icon is the Vireo icon or an envelope in white or black, with a red dot while any inbox has unread mail and a tooltip with the count. Its menu opens Vireo, Accounts, or Settings, or quits. Clicking the icon brings the window back. Off by default: the switch and icon choice are under Settings, below Keep running in the background. On plain GNOME nothing is drawn and Background Apps works as before. Enabling a tray extension later picks the icon up without a restart.

Not in this beta from #116: a per-message list in the menu, and batched notifications for several new messages at once.

Reports in this beta: @mfreeman72 (issue #116).

x86_64 only, as with every beta.

[hyprlab]

Beta: 1.20.0-beta.6

Unread mail in the tray icon's menu. Update:

flatpak update co.hyprlab.Vireo.Beta

What changed:

• With the tray icon on, its menu lists the newest five unread inbox messages across accounts ([Feature Request] Optional tray icon indicator and modified notification #116). Each row shows the sender's picture (contact photo or Gravatar, initials otherwise), then sender, account when there are several, and date, the subject, and the message list's preview line. Clicking a row opens the message in the reader, the same way a notification click does. Past five, a "View all N unread" row takes you to All Inboxes, or, with that view off, to the first inbox in sidebar order that has unread mail. A switch under the tray icon settings turns the list off.
• The beta-only Welcome Wizard entry is gone from the help menu. The wizard still runs on a first launch.

Why the rows have no action buttons: the tray dropdown is a DBusMenu. The panel (the AppIndicator extension on GNOME, Cinnamon's and KDE's own applets) draws it from a description Vireo sends over D-Bus, and that description can only express a vertical list of rows, each one icon plus text, plus separators and submenus. There is no way to place icons side by side, attach buttons to a row, or embed widgets, so a card with a row of reply, mark-read, archive and delete buttons under it cannot exist inside the menu. Stacking the actions as separate rows was tried and read as a column of entries, so the actions stay in the reader and the rows are cards that open the message. Putting real buttons on it would mean Vireo drawing its own popup instead of the panel's menu, which on GNOME Wayland cannot be placed at the tray icon.

Reports in this beta: @mfreeman72 (issue #116).

x86_64 only, as with every beta.

[hyprlab]

Beta: 1.20.0-beta.7

The tray icon reaches the beta Flatpak, and fits the Cinnamon panel. Update:

flatpak update co.hyprlab.Vireo.Beta

What changed:

• The beta Flatpak can now talk to the tray ([Feature Request] Optional tray icon indicator and modified notification #116). The stable manifest gained the org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher D-Bus permission along with the tray icon, but the beta manifest did not, so every beta build since beta.5 ran in a sandbox whose D-Bus proxy dropped the registration call. Reproduced on Linux Mint 22.3 / Cinnamon 6.6.4: the stock beta.6 showed nothing, and the same build with the permission registered with xapp-sn-watcher and appeared in the panel. If you turned the tray icon on in beta.5 or beta.6 and saw nothing, this is why.
• On Cinnamon the tray icon is drawn smaller ([Feature Request] Optional tray icon indicator and modified notification #116). Cinnamon's status applet takes a StatusNotifierItem pixmap as a full-colour icon and draws it at the panel's colour icon size, 24px on a default panel, while the symbolic icons beside it get 16px, so the Vireo icon towered over them. When the desktop is Cinnamon the icon and its red dot are rendered at five-eighths of the pixmap, centred in a clear margin, which brings it level with its neighbours. Other panels draw the pixmap at the size they asked for and keep the full fill.

Reports in this beta: @mfreeman72 (issue #116).

x86_64 only, as with every beta.

[hyprlab]

1.20.0

Stable 1.20.0 is out: everything from the nine betas, on the stable channel. Update with flatpak update, or install from https://vireo.hyprlab.co. Release notes: https://github.com/hyprlab/vireo/releases/tag/v1.20.0

Highlights: spell checking in the composer (#114), inline images in the message (#113), an optional tray icon with your newest unread mail in its menu (#116), filtered folders counting toward unread per rule (#116), cached mail opening instantly during a sync, Reply-To honoured, grab handles for the split reply and the attachment drawer, plain-text paste by default, and the attachment fixes for web Gmail senders (#109, #111, #117).

Thank you to everyone who shaped and tested this cycle: @typedev, @mfreeman72, @p-mitana and @yioannides. The corresponding issues, pull requests and discussions are now closed with the release. The beta channel catches up as 1.20.1-beta.1 (same code, no beta-only changes).

[hyprlab]

Beta: 1.20.1-beta.1

Catch-up release: the beta channel now matches stable 1.20.0. No beta-only changes. Update with flatpak update.

[hyprlab]

1.20.1

Stable 1.20.1 is out. Update with flatpak update, or install from https://vireo.hyprlab.co. Release notes: https://github.com/hyprlab/vireo/releases/tag/v1.20.1

What changed: each filter rule gains a "Show under All Inboxes" switch, off by default, beside "Count unread mail" in Settings → Accounts → Filters and in the Add Filter dialog. Folders of rules that opt in are listed in a collapsible "Filtered Folders" section inside All Inboxes, below the per-account inbox rows, each with a folder-and-funnel icon in its account's colour and its own unread count. Folded up, the heading shows the section's combined unread count. Settings → Sidebar gains a global "Filtered folders under All Inboxes" switch, on by default, that hides the section regardless of what the rules say.

The beta channel catches up as 1.20.2-beta.1 (same code, no beta-only changes).

[hyprlab]

Beta: 1.20.2-beta.1

Catch-up release: the beta channel now matches stable 1.20.1. No beta-only changes. Update with flatpak update.

[hyprlab]

1.20.2

Stable 1.20.2 is out. Update with flatpak update, or install from https://vireo.hyprlab.co. Release notes: https://github.com/hyprlab/vireo/releases/tag/v1.20.2

What changed: filter rules can be edited. Click a rule in Settings → Accounts → Filters (each row now carries a pencil beside its trash button) to open it in the filter dialog with every field filled in, and Save replaces the rule in place. The rule rows also have more room around the title and the stacked switches.

The beta channel catches up as 1.20.3-beta.1 (same code, no beta-only changes).

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Beta: 1.20.3-beta.1

Catch-up release: the beta channel now matches stable 1.20.2. No beta-only changes. Update with flatpak update.