Blank overview window

[holocronweaver]

I am using the master branch on Ubuntu 14.04. After a month of regular hamster usage, I rebooted my system, started hamster overview, and saw this:

The overview window body does not display any text. When I open the add activity dialog the 'save' button is greyed out so I have to press enter to start tracking. It seems to track fine, and it stores new activities and offers them as choices from the drop down autocompletion menu.

Any idea why this suddenly started happening? None of my other apps, including OpenGL games, are experiencing graphical problems. I tried deleting the hamster database to no avail. Rebooting does not help either. I tried this on my laptop which also runs Ubuntu 14.04, but has an AMD card instead of my NVIDIA card, and observed the same behavior.

[nchachereau]

This is definitely a confusing window, however I think it's just because your overview is showing a week (November 9 - 15) in which you have no activities. Is this possible? At the very least, the first time I started Hamster on a new week, I thought it had lost all my activities, but no, there were still there.

One way to improve this would be to have a message at the top saying something along the lines of “No activities this week [or month, or year, or day, depending on the calendar choice] yet. Add a new activity or view last week [or month etc].”

But you may be reporting a different bug entirely...

When I open the add activity dialog the 'save' button is greyed out so I have to press enter to start tracking.

This is another bug, IMHO, noticed it as well. Reported as #198.

[ruedigerkupper]

Confirming that the window appears completely empty when there is no activity for the selected time span. This confused me, too. I thought that hamster was broken. Some informative message would easily solve this.

[ederag]

Thanks for your contributions.
Should be fixed by PR #376.
For testing, please consider PR #372 that has been rebased on it,
and features some other improvements in the UI.
Feedback welcome !
A fix for the greyed out save button is about to be pushed too.