1770716 - Display a message when there are no contacts in the contact list

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Instead of a big empty space, if there are no address book contacts the list should display a message and a button to add a contact. I think the best way to do that is to define a new slot on TreeViewListbox which is only visible if there are no rows. We may need to fine-tune a few event listeners so that they only operate if there are rows.

Comment 1

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Attachment: Bug 1770716 - Add a way for TreeViewListbox to show filler content if there are no rows. r=henry

Comment 2

[Henry Wilkes (they/them) [:henry-x]]

The view is for displaying a list of contacts, not for other interactive widgets like buttons. If we want this behaviour, the button should just be a separate element in the DOM.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Not a button, but to show we don't have any results, you could do like we do for quick filter: https://searchfox.org/comm-central/search?q=quickFilterBar.resultsLabel.none&path=&case=true&regexp=false

Comment 4

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

I'll do it another way then. I thought what I can up with was a tidy solution, but whatever.

Comment 5

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Attachment: Bug 1770716 - Display a message when there are no contacts in the contact list. r=aleca

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/b331dfebda68
Display a message when there are no contacts in the contact list. r=aleca