fix(notifications): Back to a row that folded away since opens Earlier on it

docs/DESIGN.md

@@ -381,7 +381,8 @@ Which actions are visible and which live in a menu.
   "…" holds find / undo for an activity notice. The notification center lists what asks for the
   reader first ("Needs you · n": an unread row, a notice waiting on an action — one read during the
   visit keeps its place there until Mark all read), then one stream of both sources, newest first,
-  and folds read rows older than a week under "Earlier (n)", a heading-style disclosure, closed. Its band keeps Mark all read
+  and folds read rows older than a week under "Earlier (n)", a heading-style disclosure, closed — Back to a row
+  that folded away since opens it on that row. Its band keeps Mark all read
   and puts Clear everything, now behind a confirm, in its "…"; the Scheduler's strip keeps Run all
   and Pause and puts Purge discovery in its "…". A list whose row objects are rebuilt each render or replaced by a
   poll passes `useContextMenu({ keyOf })` (its id), so the "…" still closes its own menu. A menu's

frontend/src/modules/notifications/NotificationsPanel.order.dom.test.tsx

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ vi.mock("../../components/ui/PageShell", async (importOriginal) => ({
 }));
 
 import NotificationsPanel from "./NotificationsPanel";
-import { focusNavItem } from "../../lib/listNav";
+import { focusNavItem, restoreNavPosition } from "../../lib/listNav";
 
 // The server list goes through the real live query, so an optimistic patch of its cache is seen.
 beforeEach(() => {
@@ -94,7 +94,10 @@ function mount() {
   const qc = new QueryClient();
   const tree = () => (
     <QueryClientProvider client={qc}>
+      {/* The page's scroller, as in the app: Back finds a row in another of the page's lists. */}
+      <main>
         <NotificationsPanel />
+      </main>
     </QueryClientProvider>
   );
   const { rerender } = render(tree());
@@ -147,6 +150,29 @@ describe("NotificationsPanel · order", () => {
     expect(rows()).toEqual(["Ready 1", "Activity 3", "Ready 2"]);
   });
 
+  it("Back to a row that folded away while the page was gone opens Earlier on it", async () => {
+    // Read during the visit it was opened from, the row kept its place in Needs you; on the next
+    // visit it is read and over a week old, and folded under Earlier the restore found no list
+    // holding it — the focus fell on the neighbour at its old place.
+    h.server = [server(1, 8 * D, false), server(2, 9 * D, true)];
+    h.client = [];
+    const cancel = restoreNavPosition({
+      list: 0,
+      lists: 2,
+      index: 0,
+      name: "inbox.downloadDone.title: Ready 2",
+    });
+    mount();
+    await loaded();
+    await waitFor(() =>
+      expect(document.activeElement?.closest("[data-nav-index]")?.textContent).toMatch(/Ready 2/),
+    );
+    cancel();
+    expect(
+      screen.getByRole("button", { name: "inbox.earlier:1" }).getAttribute("aria-expanded"),
+    ).toBe("true");
+  });
+
   it("numbers each list's rows from 0 for the keyboard walk", async () => {
     h.server = [server(1, 1 * H, false), server(2, 2 * H, true), server(3, 10 * D, true)];
     h.client = [client(4, 3 * H)];

frontend/src/modules/notifications/NotificationsPanel.tsx

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ import { useFeedFilters, useFeedFiltersActions } from "../feed";
 import { SURFACE } from "../../components/ui/surfaces";
 import { SectionLabel } from "../../components/ui/Headings";
 import NavGrid from "../../components/ui/NavGrid";
-import { focusNavItem, navItemAttrs } from "../../lib/listNav";
+import { focusNavItem, navItemAttrs, pendingNavName } from "../../lib/listNav";
 import { useContextMenu, type ContextMenuController } from "../../components/ui/useContextMenu";
 import { ContextMenu } from "../../components/ui/ContextMenu";
 import { MoreButton } from "../../components/ui/MoreButton";
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ const POLL_MS = 8000;
 const byId = (n: { id: number }) => n.id;
 
 export default function NotificationsPanel() {
-  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  const { t, i18n } = useTranslation();
   const { setPage } = useNavigationActions();
   const { openFile } = useFilesActions();
   const filters = useFeedFilters();
@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ export default function NotificationsPanel() {
   );
   const [openedAt] = useState(() => Date.now());
   const [earlierOpen, setEarlierOpen] = useState(false);
+  // Back to a row that folded away since it was opened (read on that visit, and over a week old):
+  // Earlier opens on it, or the restore finds no list holding it and the focus falls on the row now
+  // at its old place. Read once, as the center opens; settled once the server's list is in.
+  const [seeking, setSeeking] = useState(pendingNavName);
 
   // Opening the center marks the (ephemeral) client items read, matching the old bell. Server
   // items stay unread until acted on individually.
@@ -157,6 +161,10 @@ export default function NotificationsPanel() {
   const order = orderInbox(shownServer, clientItems, { now: openedAt, held });
   const asking = order.needsYou.map(entryKey).filter((k) => !held.has(k));
   if (asking.length > 0) setHeld(new Set([...held, ...asking]));
+  if (seeking && q.data) {
+    setSeeking(null);
+    if (order.earlier.some((e) => entryName(e, t, i18n.language) === seeking)) setEarlierOpen(true);
+  }
 
   const serverUnread = serverItems.some((n) => !n.read);
   const hasAny = serverItems.length > 0 || clientItems.length > 0;
@@ -614,36 +622,12 @@ function RowEnd({
   );
 }
 
-function NotificationRow({
-  n,
-  t,
-  navIndex,
-  rowProps,
-  more,
-  onRead,
-  onDismiss,
-  onOpenScheduler,
-  onOpenTakeout,
-  onOpenFile,
-  onOpenTokens,
-}: {
-  n: AppNotification;
-  t: TFunction;
-  navIndex: number;
-  rowProps: Record<string, unknown>;
-  more: ReactNode;
-  onRead: () => void;
-  onDismiss: () => void;
-  onOpenScheduler: () => void;
-  onOpenTakeout: () => void;
-  onOpenFile: () => void;
-  onOpenTokens: () => void;
-}) {
-  const lang = useTranslation().i18n.language;
-  // The maintenance producer ships the affected videos in `data.videos`; list a few titles.
-  const videos: { id: string; title: string | null }[] = Array.isArray(n.data?.videos)
-    ? n.data!.videos
-    : [];
+/** What a server row says: its title and body — in the reader's language for a known type. */
+function serverRowText(
+  n: AppNotification,
+  t: TFunction,
+  lang: string,
+): { title: string; body: string | null } {
   // Known notification types are rendered from i18n (so they're trilingual) using the typed
   // payload; the server-stored title/body are an English fallback for any unknown type.
   const isMaintenance = n.type === "maintenance" && typeof n.data?.count === "number";
@@ -698,9 +682,58 @@ function NotificationRow({
     title = t(DONE_TITLE[d.kind ?? ""] ?? "inbox.downloadDone.title");
     body = d.title || n.body;
   }
+  return { title, body };
+}
+
+/** A row's name, for a screen reader and for Back to find it by: what it is about, not its kind. */
+const rowName = (title: string, body: string | null | undefined): string =>
+  body ? `${title}: ${body}` : title;
+const clientRowName = (n: ClientNotif): string =>
+  n.title ? rowName(n.title, n.message) : n.message;
+const entryName = (e: InboxEntry, t: TFunction, lang: string): string => {
+  if (e.src === "client") return clientRowName(e.n);
+  const { title, body } = serverRowText(e.n, t, lang);
+  return rowName(title, body);
+};
+
+function NotificationRow({
+  n,
+  t,
+  navIndex,
+  rowProps,
+  more,
+  onRead,
+  onDismiss,
+  onOpenScheduler,
+  onOpenTakeout,
+  onOpenFile,
+  onOpenTokens,
+}: {
+  n: AppNotification;
+  t: TFunction;
+  navIndex: number;
+  rowProps: Record<string, unknown>;
+  more: ReactNode;
+  onRead: () => void;
+  onDismiss: () => void;
+  onOpenScheduler: () => void;
+  onOpenTakeout: () => void;
+  onOpenFile: () => void;
+  onOpenTokens: () => void;
+}) {
+  const lang = useTranslation().i18n.language;
+  // The maintenance producer ships the affected videos in `data.videos`; list a few titles.
+  const videos: { id: string; title: string | null }[] = Array.isArray(n.data?.videos)
+    ? n.data!.videos
+    : [];
+  const { title, body } = serverRowText(n, t, lang);
+  const isTakeout = serverKind(n) === "takeout";
+  const isScheduler = serverKind(n) === "scheduler" || isTakeout;
+  const isDownloadDone = serverKind(n) === "download";
+  const isTokenExpiring = serverKind(n) === "token";
   // Named by what it is about, not its kind alone: every "Download ready" read the same to a screen
   // reader, and Back could not tell the row it was opened from by its name.
-  const name = body ? `${title}: ${body}` : title;
+  const name = rowName(title, body);
   return (
     <div
       // The unread state is spoken too (the dot is only drawn), apart from the name Back finds it by.
@@ -802,7 +835,7 @@ function ClientActivityRow({
   const access = n.meta?.kind === "access-requests" ? n.meta : null;
   return (
     <div
-      {...navItemAttrs(navIndex, n.title ? `${n.title}: ${n.message}` : n.message)}
+      {...navItemAttrs(navIndex, clientRowName(n))}
       {...rowProps}
       className={`${SURFACE.card} group p-3.5 flex items-start gap-3 ${needsAction ? "ring-1 ring-accent/30" : ""}`}
     >