From 6ead268ef09b43c4401da28fb88c516ac2f530c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Damir=20Jeli=C4=87?= <poljar@termina.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 12:45:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] electron-main: Provide a better error message if Seshat isn't
 installed.

This closes #11637.
---
 electron_app/src/electron-main.js | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/electron_app/src/electron-main.js b/electron_app/src/electron-main.js
index deb20a1a3c9..453f2fe5e47 100644
--- a/electron_app/src/electron-main.js
+++ b/electron_app/src/electron-main.js
@@ -47,7 +47,11 @@ let Seshat = null;
 try {
     Seshat = require('matrix-seshat');
 } catch (e) {
-    console.warn("seshat unavailable", e);
+    if (e.code === "MODULE_NOT_FOUND") {
+        console.log("Seshat isn't installed, event indexing is disabled.");
+    } else {
+        console.warn("Seshat unexpected error:", e);
+    }
 }
 
 if (argv["help"]) {