Improve main screen when having no contacts

!28 (merged) added support for adding contacts, but when we have no contacts, the main screen is all white and doesn't allow us to click the add contact button

With !33 (merged), the main screen is not all white anymore, but just shows as "TBD" placeholder instead of a nice and colorful image.

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I guess we could have a rather special screen in this situation

mentioned in merge request !28 (merged)

Not sure if displaying an empty contact list is the best thing we can come up with

At least it could contain some hint "This is where your contacts will appear" or similar

Yeah, when there are no contacts in the list we could do something like "Click the + button to add new contacts" or something like this. The same goes for the conversation part, where I show this in Briar GTK:

yes, that sounds like going in the right direction

I think what many apps do is display some very beautiful placeholder graphics, for example when you search for issues in Gitlab and there are no results they show that illustrations, try yourself: https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar-desktop/-/issues?scope=all&state=opened&search=foobar

we need to find an SVG wizard

or actually, these kind of things are probably something we could do together with ura design as part of that usability lab

Maybe we could use the style guide's illustrations?

yeah, that seems like a good start

I'm no wizard, but I have some experience with doing vector illustrations, here's an example of a hero image I did earlier this year for some friends. Would love to contribute some svg's for the project if anyone has any good illustration ideas But for now I think the briar-gtk solution and/or the android illustrations are great

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changed the description

changed milestone to %Desktop 0.1.0

assigned to @sebkur

mentioned in issue #189 (closed)

mentioned in merge request !100 (merged)

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closed with merge request !100 (merged)