UI seems barebones on first install and open

[rsmyst]

Hello! just leaving my 2 cents here after trying out activity watcher. I feel like the app seems very barebones in the first few days of install. I have a few suggestions to fix this hopefully:

• [ ] Create a landing page on first install that guides the user through a few pages of customization and introduction. for example, a few tips popping up initially and a question asking if user would like a dark or light theme. this would make it more friendly
• [ ] Inform the user clearly that he/she would need to wait a while before the webpage is fully populated. i understand this seems obvious but to the average consumer, initial impressions matter.
• [ ] Small notifications could be added that pop up every now and then when a user gets distracted and spends too much time doing other stuff than what they categorized as work
• [ ] the whole UI could be made to look more friendly. right now, it looks just a bit rigid. maybe some animations can be introduced to make things flow together. For example, when moving cursor across the sunburst graph, the higlighting could move over smoothly instead of instantly.
• [ ] A persistent notification asking the User to download their default browser's activity watched extension can also be placed in UI. with direct links to the store pages.
• [ ] Add more colorful headings. Currently, everything is kind of monotonous. I really liked the look of rescuetime with their different colors and interactive elements. maybe something like that could be implemented here as well.

this last one is not a UI tip but rather, i hope the SEO gets better for the website. nothing remotely close to this app comes up on google even though i searched it's exact name. surprising since it's so popular on github. Maybe the website could be updated with content distributed over multiple pages and headings with good keywords.

These are just a few changes i feel would improve the app.

[dtgay]

Just my two cents: I really like the clean white UI. I think it looks good, and it makes the activity pop (since activity is colored).

[ScriptForAll]

Regarding the UI my only complaint is the fact that the text on the charts don't have enough contrast, especially when using custom colours for categories. This makes the text often completely unreadable.

A possible solution for this issue is to be able to create custom themes via css. This has the plus of adding more customization into ActivityWatch.