(UX) Starts to blank screen when window is small - needs placeholder views
Lollypop currently boots to the empty "Popular albums" section, with a somewhat cold welcome to the user who needs some time to figure out they need to click on the Back arrow first of all ("but I didn't enter anything, why would I have to go back?").
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My suggestions:
- add (simple) placeholder views when a section is empty (even only "No songs here.", but that would be misleading as a welcome screen as in my case)
- don't boot to a section showing only popular albums without warning ("Why isn't all my music here?"). Booting to the sidebar might be quite "cold" too, so either All albums or even Popular albums, but with some kind of header telling the user that it doesn't contain all their music. Anyway, the "boot-to-most-listened" approach used also by Play Music for Android was proven to be tiring to most users, who had to navigate back to get to all their music.
Thanks for your work on the best GNOME player.