Hubzilla: Updating vs customized code; Customized System nav menu

King Emir

Basel, Thu, 23 May 2019 12:44:24 +0200 last edited: Thu, 23 May 2019 12:45:09 +0200

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It seems like the hub.disroot.org admin overwrote in $baseurl/app/network.apd photo: icon:th with something else, to let the hubzilla icon be shown for the app "Network" in the nav menu instead of the grid icon.

When updating hubzilla with git, how do such code changings affect the updating process? Is $baseurl/app/network.apd just not touched since it differs from the same file on the pull repository? Or do software updates affect such code changings?

I'm asking also because I am considering removing nav_featured_app from the code of some system apps like "bug report", "help" or "randprof", or maybe it's even better to remove System, because these apps are indeed useful for logged-in channels on the hub I'm administering, but not for observers (for them, they're confusing). Actually, from $baseurl/app/randprof.apd, you can't remove these values because Networking is the only category to which this app is assigned to (and still it is shown in the nav menu under "System Apps", how come?).

@Mike Macgirvin ⚡ stated here that he believes the list order of the system apps is alphabetical by default. How can I change the order?

Or am I barking up the wrong tree by using the System Apps in the nav menu for a customized main navigation which stays always the same, regardless of the fact which page on the hub is visited and whether the visitor is logged in or not?

Mike Macgirvin

Thu, 23 May 2019 13:18:59 +0200

If you want to make custom changes on your site, there are many ways to do it as we provided over-rides for nearly everything. But let's  keep this simple and just use git. On your customised site,

git checkout -b custom-site      # create a new branch called 'custom-site'
git commit -a                         # commit all your custom changes to your 'custom-site' branch

git checkout master                # go back to the original code
git pull                                  # pull in any updates

git checkout custom-site          # now check out your custom branch
git merge master                    # merge all the latest changes into your custom branch

How can I change the order?

I stand corrected. There is a mechanism for changing this.

util/config system.app_order

Set this to a comma-separate list of app names in the order you want them presented.

King Emir

Sat, 25 May 2019 17:30:42 +0200

Thanks @Mike Macgirvin ⚡ for pointing at the tool. After trying it out, I found out the syntax for changing the list order. You have to do it with the shown list entries in each language, it doesn't work with the file name.

util/config system.app_order Hilfe,"Fehler melden",Help,"Report Bug" works
util/config system.app_order help,bugreport doesn't work
util/config system.app_order help.apd,bugreport.apd doesn't work

But how can I remove a default system app from the system apps menu? I tried both removing nav_featured_app or System from app/bugreport.apd or app/directory, without any effect.

Mike Macgirvin

Sat, 25 May 2019 23:23:56 +0200

You would also need to remove those taxonomy terms from every installed instance in the DB.