Don't display empty widgets

[ewinslow]

Wondering if this would be a good idea. If a widget would have no content, why display it at all? It just looks silly sitting there empty.

[cash]

If you know of a widget distributed with Elgg that has no content, we should fix that. They should at least display a "there is no content" kind of message.

And hiding an empty widget is a bad idea. It decreases the predictability of the system.

[ewinslow]

Why is this unpredictable? Nothing to show? Don't show anything. That seems logical to me.

I'm assuming we always show this to the user who dragged the widget into place, or to all users who can edit the widget. That way they always have the chance to tweak the settings in order to get something to show up.

[cash]

You forgot to mention that it would always be visible to the person who added it in your original report.

[ewinslow]

Oops. You're right -- sorry for that.

Any new thoughts in view of that new information?

[cash]

sgtm

[cash]

Tried this but Elgg automatically falls back to object/default if the widget view does not return anything. This is not worth adding an exception to elgg_view_entity().