Let the toggle come back to the theme you were on

The top-bar toggle went to light from anything dark, and back to plain
"dark" -- which quietly moved an ihasmail user onto a theme they had
never chosen, two clicks and no way to tell what had happened. It did
the same to "match system", which the toggle could not restore at all;
the comment above it conceded as much and sent people to Settings.

There is more than one way to be dark now, so the way back is
remembered: lastDarkTheme holds whichever non-light theme was last
chosen, and the toggle returns to that.

The remembering lives in update(), the single path every way of setting
a theme goes through -- the toggle, Appearance, an imported settings
file -- so a fourth way to choose one cannot forget to record it. Light
never overwrites it, since light is the side being toggled away from.

The button's label follows: "Switch to the ihasmail theme", "Switch to
your system theme", rather than claiming everything dark is "dark mode".

Confirmed in a browser, not only in tests: from a fresh profile the
round trip ihasmail -> light -> ihasmail returns to ihasmail, and
system -> light -> system returns to system, with the label naming the
destination each time.
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@@ -88,6 +88,14 @@ export interface Settings {
eventCategories: Array<{ name: string; color: string }>;
/** Default sending identity per account (JMAP has no such flag). */
defaultIdentityByAccount: Record<string, string>;
/**
* The theme the top-bar toggle goes back to from light. Remembered rather
* than assumed, so flipping to light and back returns you to the theme you
* were on — "ihasmail", "system" or plain "dark" — instead of dropping
* everyone onto the same one. Never "light": that is the side being
* toggled away from.
*/
lastDarkTheme: Exclude<Theme, "light">;
}
export const DEFAULT_SETTINGS: Settings = {
@@ -152,6 +160,7 @@ export const DEFAULT_SETTINGS: Settings = {
{ name: "Family", color: "#9333ea" },
],
defaultIdentityByAccount: {},
lastDarkTheme: "ihasmail",
};
/**
@@ -215,14 +224,18 @@ applyDateTimePrefs(initialSettings);
export const useSettings = create<SettingsState>((set, get) => ({
settings: initialSettings,
update(patch) {
const settings = { ...get().settings, ...patch };
// Picking a theme anywhere — the toggle, Appearance, an imported file —
// is what teaches the toggle where to come back to. Doing it here rather
// than at the call sites means a fourth way to set a theme cannot forget.
const next = patch.theme && patch.theme !== "light" ? { ...patch, lastDarkTheme: patch.theme } : patch;
const settings = { ...get().settings, ...next };
saveJson("settings", settings);
set({ settings });
applyTheme(settings);
applyDateTimePrefs(settings);
// Dragging a splitter changes a device key on every frame and must not put
// a request in the air; anything else is queued and coalesced.
if (Object.keys(patch).some((k) => !DEVICE_KEYS.has(k as keyof Settings))) {
if (Object.keys(next).some((k) => !DEVICE_KEYS.has(k as keyof Settings))) {
queueSettingsPush(syncedPart(settings));
}
},
@@ -278,6 +291,15 @@ export function applyTheme(s: Settings = useSettings.getState().settings): void
if (meta) meta.content = s.theme === "ihasmail" ? THEME_COLOR.ihasmail : dark ? THEME_COLOR.dark : THEME_COLOR.light;
}
/**
* Where the top-bar toggle goes next. Away from dark is always light; back
* from light is wherever you last were, which is the whole point of
* remembering it.
*/
export function toggleTarget(effective: "light" | "dark", lastDarkTheme: Settings["lastDarkTheme"]): Theme {
return effective === "dark" ? "light" : lastDarkTheme;
}
/** Whether a theme paints dark, resolving "system" against the OS. */
export function isDarkTheme(theme: Theme, prefersDark = false): boolean {
return theme === "dark" || theme === "ihasmail" || (theme === "system" && prefersDark);