I’m looking for how to have an app that’s I have defined in the custom-shortcuts.json appear on the FreedomBox homepage ONLY AFTER a user has logged in.
Is this possible without me having to create a python app.
I’m looking for how to have an app that’s I have defined in the custom-shortcuts.json appear on the FreedomBox homepage ONLY AFTER a user has logged in.
Is this possible without me having to create a python app.
Unfortunately, we are not picking up the login_required field from custom shortcuts file and passing it on to the framework. So, this will require a tiny change to the framework in frontpage.py::add_custom_shortcuts(). Created an issue: https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox/-/issues/1968 . Have a stab at it if you know Python.
Ok, so I found the file
ls /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plinth/frontpage.py
, and in the function add_custom_shortcuts(), I changed the line
component = Shortcut(component_id, shortcut['name'],
shortcut['short_description'],
icon=shortcut['icon_url'], url=web_app_url)
to
component = Shortcut(component_id, shortcut['name'],
shortcut['short_description'],
icon=shortcut['icon_url'], url=web_app_url,
login_required=shortcut['login_required'])
and restarted plinth with
sudo systemctl restart plinth
and it seems to work. One question. Will these changes be permanent, or will I have to make them everytime I update/upgrade plinth.
These changes will be overridden when new version of FreedomBox is automatically installed. The best thing to do is submit your change to the code repository as a merge request. Before you do:
Checkout HACKING.md and CONTRIBUTORS.md for more details.