Comment 1 for bug 1548672

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.