GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 670995
Improve first time and no document experience
Last modified: 2012-08-30 02:08:12 UTC
The application as it relies on various other components, like tracker (which has perhaps not found documents) or GOA connections (which can be not yet done at the first start), should improve the experience of the user where it starts for the first time or when the user has no document to display. For instance on my live F17 image which contains no document nor goa account, Documents has an empty window.
Maybe gnome-documents needs a "new [spreadsheet/text document...]" button that could let users create new documents locally (using applications registered as office apps), or on GOA accounts (if any).
I ran into this recently as well -- big scary blank window :/ At the *very* least, it needs a simple "No documents found" message. But a nice short, friendly description of what you need to do to make documents appear here, perhaps with a link/button to log into Google Docs or any other supported cloud service would be a good idea, too. (Re Julien's idea, personally I've never found "Create a new document of type XYZ" command useful outside of the actual application used to create it. But perhaps after nearly a quarter of a century of using graphical desktops, I'm just far too set in my old application-centric ways...)
*** Bug 679479 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Here is the design for first-time experience in gnome-documents: https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/blob/master/documents/documents-empty.png
Created attachment 222853 [details] [review] embed: add a "No Documents Found" page This is shown when no documents at all are found in the database.
Created attachment 222854 [details] [review] notifications: add a notification while tracker is indexing the FS Notify the user when an indexing process in the filesystem is happening.
Created attachment 222856 [details] screenshot Screenshot of the No Documents Found page
Created attachment 222857 [details] screenshot Screenshot of the indexing notification
Pushed to master after r-t approval.