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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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { useEffect, useState, type ReactNode } from "react";
import { Link, useLocation } from "wouter";
import { Calendar, ChevronsUpDown, FolderOpen, HelpCircle, Mail, Menu as MenuIcon, Moon, PenSquare, Settings, Sun, Users, LogOut, Plus, RefreshCw } from "lucide-react";
import { useSession } from "@/store/session";
import { useEffectiveTheme, useSettings } from "@/store/settings";
import { toggleTarget, useEffectiveTheme, useSettings } from "@/store/settings";
import { useMail } from "@/store/mail";
import { draftFromMailto, useCompose } from "@/store/compose";
import { Avatar, useIsMobile } from "@/ui/misc";
@@ -205,22 +205,31 @@ function QuotaBar() {
}
/**
* Flip between light and dark from the top bar.
* Flip to light and back from the top bar.
*
* The stored setting has a third value, "system", so the button acts on what
* is actually on screen rather than on the setting: whichever theme you can
* see, one click gives you the other one. Choosing "match system" again lives
* in Settings Appearance, where the three-way choice belongs.
* The setting has four values and only two of them are "light", so the button
* acts on what is actually on screen rather than on the setting: if you can
* see a dark theme, one click gives you light.
*
* Coming back is the part that needs remembering. There is more than one way
* to be dark — "dark", "ihasmail", or "system" while the OS is — so the way
* back is whichever you were on, kept in `lastDarkTheme`, rather than plain
* "dark" for everyone. Without that, two clicks would quietly move an
* ihasmail user onto a theme they never chose.
*/
function ThemeToggle() {
const effective = useEffectiveTheme();
const lastDarkTheme = useSettings((s) => s.settings.lastDarkTheme);
const update = useSettings((s) => s.update);
const next = effective === "dark" ? "light" : "dark";
const next = toggleTarget(effective, lastDarkTheme);
// The label names where you are going, and going back is not always "dark"
// any more -- it is whichever theme you were on before flipping to light.
const label = next === "light" ? "light mode" : next === "system" ? "your system theme" : next === "ihasmail" ? "the ihasmail theme" : "dark mode";
return (
<button
className="icon-btn"
aria-label={`Switch to ${next} mode`}
title={`Switch to ${next} mode`}
aria-label={`Switch to ${label}`}
title={`Switch to ${label}`}
onClick={() => update({ theme: next })}
>
{effective === "dark" ? <Sun size={21} /> : <Moon size={21} />}