Navigation: Display Starred dashboards in the Navbar (#51038)

* remove feature toggle, add empty state and fix bug with initial starring

* Extract empty message into lingui

* remove full stop

* add empty message in the backend

* remove unused import

* translate starred + empty starred states

* betterer changes

pkg/api/dtos/index.go

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ type NavLink struct {
 	Children         []*NavLink `json:"children,omitempty"`
 	HighlightText    string     `json:"highlightText,omitempty"`
 	HighlightID      string     `json:"highlightId,omitempty"`
+	EmptyMessageId   string     `json:"emptyMessageId,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // NavIDCfg is the id for org configuration navigation node

pkg/api/index.go

@@ -163,22 +163,21 @@ func (hs *HTTPServer) getNavTree(c *models.ReqContext, hasEditPerm bool, prefs *
 	hasAccess := ac.HasAccess(hs.AccessControl, c)
 	navTree := []*dtos.NavLink{}
 
-	if hs.Features.IsEnabled(featuremgmt.FlagSavedItems) {
-		starredItemsLinks, err := hs.buildStarredItemsNavLinks(c, prefs)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-
-		navTree = append(navTree, &dtos.NavLink{
-			Text:       "Starred",
-			Id:         "starred",
-			Icon:       "star",
-			SortWeight: dtos.WeightSavedItems,
-			Section:    dtos.NavSectionCore,
-			Children:   starredItemsLinks,
-		})
+	starredItemsLinks, err := hs.buildStarredItemsNavLinks(c, prefs)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	navTree = append(navTree, &dtos.NavLink{
+		Text:           "Starred",
+		Id:             "starred",
+		Icon:           "star",
+		SortWeight:     dtos.WeightSavedItems,
+		Section:        dtos.NavSectionCore,
+		Children:       starredItemsLinks,
+		EmptyMessageId: "starred-empty",
+	})
+
 	dashboardChildLinks := hs.buildDashboardNavLinks(c, hasEditPerm)
 
 	dashboardsUrl := "/dashboards"