GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 761817
chatView: Empty blank state when channel has no activity
Last modified: 2021-06-10 11:03:30 UTC
Created attachment 320786 [details] screenshot of empty chat view in polari 3.19.x. When entering a channel for the first time, the user interface might seem slightly alien and confusing, since the whole chatview is empty. Here's some suggestions that I think would be nice: - Welcome the user to the channel. - Use the space to explain what this white area is and what you can do with it. - perhaps write a status message "bastianilso has joined the chat", to put in the first piece of content? If the channel contains no one else than the user, this might also be a great opportunity to: - suggest the user to invite other users to the room (via an IRC link, or via IRC's INVITE machinery) - explain where the user can customize the channel modes, set topic etc. See also discussion in Bug 761813.
Created attachment 320789 [details] slack-reference-blank-state Attaching a picture of how slack handles empty channels, for reference.
I created a design page for this: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Potential/Polari/RoomBlankState
Apologize for that, I wrote the above message. I appear to have been logged into my friend's account.
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