GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 743684
Add a welcome screen
Last modified: 2021-07-05 11:32:00 UTC
Documents currently shows a placeholder when there are no boxes present. However, this is a bit flat and uninteresting for the first time you run the app. One of the things we would like to do is have interesting and engaging welcome screens for all the content applications. Designs can be found here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/InitialStates And there is an asset here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/initial-app-states/assets/documents.png This includes an image that is licensed under CC BY-SA, so attribution needs to be given: https://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/2493803790/ A CREDITS file and a mention in the About dialog could do the trick.
What is going to happen when we merge the patches for separate views for documents and collections? The mockups indicate that the welcome screen is shown when both views are empty (the buttons are shown as insensitive). What if there are some documents and no albums?
(In reply to Debarshi Ray from comment #1) > What is going to happen when we merge the patches for separate views for > documents and collections? The mockups indicate that the welcome screen is > shown when both views are empty (the buttons are shown as insensitive). What > if there are some documents and no albums? The collections view will need an empty state of its own. The logic would be: * No documents or collections: show the welcome screen and disable the view switcher, selection mode and search. * Documents but no collections: show documents in the recent view and an empty state in the collections view. Search would be sensitive, selection mode would be sensitive in the documents view only. * Collections but no documents (highly unusual!): show the empty state in the recent view, search should be sensitive, selection mode should only be sensitive in the collections view.
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