[Feature]: A cleaner composer header, and an Attach sheet with icons and clearer names #137

Problem / Motivation

Two small things in the composer make it look less finished than the rest of the app:

• The header of a new message reads "New Message". The empty From, To and Subject fields right below already say what the screen is, so the title repeats them and adds clutter to the header.
• On a server with Files, the Attach sheet has two options that read like the same thing: "Upload from this device" and "Attach from Files". On a phone, "Files" is also the name of the system file app, so it isn't clear that the second one means the user's Files on the mail server. The rows are also plain text, while other sheets in the app (the attachment actions in a message, for example) show an icon on each row.

Proposed Solution

• A new message has no header title. Reply, Reply All and Forward keep theirs, since those tell you something, and the draft status line under the title still shows.
• Icons on the Attach sheet rows, sized and coloured like the attachment action sheet: image, camera, phone, folder (the folder icon is the one "Save to Files" already uses).
• Names that tell the sources apart: Gallery, Camera, This device, Bulwark Files.
  • "This device" opens the system file picker, and "Bulwark Files" opens the Files picker.
  • Without server Files, the third row reads "This device" too, so the label doesn't change with the server.
  • On iOS the first row keeps "Photos & Videos", since iOS calls its library Photos.

The three new strings would be app-only keys in locales/rn, in every locale. "This device" and "Files" can reuse the webmail's existing translations. A PR with this is coming shortly.

Alternatives Considered

• Merging "Upload from this device" and "Attach from Files" into one option: that would drop attaching from server Files, which the webmail has ([Feature]: Attach items from files webmail#1179), so it is not an option.
• Keeping the current labels and adding icons only: the icons help, but "Attach from Files" next to a phone's own Files app still reads as the same thing.

Feature Area

Email

Mockups / Examples

The sheet would read, top to bottom: Gallery, Camera, This device, Bulwark Files, Cancel, each row with its icon on the left. Screenshots from a device build will be in the PR.

Additional Context

The header change is for new messages only, including a draft reopened from Drafts, which also showed "New Message" until now.

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