It's quiet here, share your site

eric redegeld Posted in General Discussion 4 days ago

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Hi there, what are you all working on. Share the new, components, themes etyc

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us Robert Goodson Replied 20 hours ago

Yup: everyone playing with AI right now.
Personally, I'm evaluating OSSN for a private social network. Just curious what have been/are your biggest headaches with the system of software. Looks to me like a pretty easy system at large!

Frankly, I date back to Amiga BBS days and am way behind (understatement) for this genre of community software. Fortunately, I just retired and have some extra time to fill now.
Got about a week to decide which path to meander down, input welcomed!
Rolf

Indonesian Arsalan Shah Replied 20 hours ago

Did you changed the fontawesome version from 6 to other? the icon is fontawsome it appears

.sidebar-menu-nav ul .sub-menu li:before {
    font-family: 'Font Awesome 5 Free';
    display: inline-block;
    padding-left: 10px;
    padding-right: 10px;
    vertical-align: middle;
    width: 35px;
    float: left;
}
.menu-section-item-newsfeed:before {
     content: "\f0a1" !important;  /*** this is newsfeed fontawesome unicode ****/
}
Dutch Eric redegeld Replied 1 day ago

okay

Hi, I’ve run into a stubborn theme issue and I’m wondering if you can point me in the right direction.

I’m building a custom theme derived from GoBlue. In the left sidebar, the menu items for News Feed, Friends, Photos and Notifications show small square placeholder characters before the text.

I first assumed it was a Font Awesome issue, so I explicitly set the FA font-family and later even replaced those pseudo-icons with CSS/SVG mask icons. The squares still remain.

That makes me think these characters may not actually come from my theme CSS, but from the menu item label or markup generated by OSSN itself.

Do you know where those leading icons/characters for the main sidebar menu items are added in GoBlue/OSSN?

For example, the rendered items effectively look like:

□ News Feed
□ Friends
□ Photos
□ Notifications

while other menu items such as Groups, Marketplace and Tools render their icons correctly.

Is there a recommended way for a custom theme to override or remove those default sidebar icons without changing core/component files?

Thanks!

Dutch Eric redegeld Replied 1 day ago

Okay. Good tip.

For now i also manage to can change background front en end with image and Imagecolor

Indonesian Arsalan Shah Replied 1 day ago

Looks nice, you can easily override component pages too by just copy components/(name)/plugins/default/ to your theme/plugins/default

Indonesian Arsalan Shah Replied 2 days ago

That is general problem with responsive design it breaks on one device works on other.

Dutch Eric redegeld Replied 3 days ago

Haha, apparently it’s not only quiet in the software industry the users have gone into power-saving mode too. 😄

I’m working on my own OSSN theme at the moment. And wow… components suddenly feel easy. 😂

Building a theme is a real pain in the ass: fix desktop, break mobile; fix mobile, discover another breakpoint; resize the browser and something decides to disappear.

But that’s also what makes it fun. It’s definitely a bigger challenge than building a component and I’m slowly winning the fight. 😎

Indonesian Arsalan Shah Replied 3 days ago

Working on FB style theme, yes its quite on all software industry lol

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