[Dekko] Missing empty state on wide mode startup
Bug #1548672 reported by
David Planella
This bug affects 1 person
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Ubuntu UX |
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Bug Description
When I start Dekko in wide mode (e.g. on a desktop), I'm presented with the list of messages on the left and the individual message view on the right.
Initially, until I've clicked on a message on the list, the individual message pane on the right stays blank. It would be good to have a defined empty state in order not to have a blank view. I guess this needs design input, but off the top of my head a static page (similar to Thunderbird) or pre-selecting the last message on the list could be options to consider.
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Thanks for the report.
Yes this probably does need some design input, as none of the current designs have anything regarding this.
I think some sort of empty state would be a good thing to show here. It could possibly be better to do it as a static web page rather than in qml. As at the moment Dekko just loads "about:blank" to ensure it's empty, which could easily be changed for a different page.
The one thing we can't do is preselect a message that is still unread, as that will trigger an action to mark it as read on the server without any user interaction. Instead we could select the last opened/selected message before the previous session was quit. So you would only end up seeing the empty state the first time you open a mailbox or if the server informed us the message uid's have changed and we have to trash our current cache. I think they are the only two instances the empty state view would be needed.