How to change the default number of app on the top menu

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How to change the default number of apps in the top menu - before it collapsed into a “…” icon?
Default seems to be 9 apps before it starts adding them into a dropdown list.
Can I tweek something in the config.php or somewhere else to modify this behaviour?

Thanks!
Johann Savalle

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Hi,

There are no settings in the admin GUI or something where you can change the number. There was a design decision to have a specific number of icons depending on the width of the window.

While this doesn’t help much, I can show you where the setting is made in the code, but I have to remind you, that it is usually better to leave the code untouched and rather open a feature request.

While we are stubborn and doing it anyway:
../nextcloud/core/js # less js.js

Search for “minAppsDesktop” and you will find:
var minAppsDesktop = 8;

Increasing that value will increase the number of icons in the app bar - on the desktop (doesn’t affect mobile).

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Thanks for in the info.

Isn’t there a way to avoid modifying the core by writing a small plugin to overwrite the core’s behaviour? (or maybe through a theme… eventhough I went throught the theme documentation… couldn’t find anything that looks like that…)

(ps: sorry if the question sounds stupid - I am still trying to understand how all the parts are articulated together… )

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@jsavalle You can install App Order in order to shift around order of apps + use hide option to remove icons from the top bar menu. Note that hiding apps will remove them from the bar and … drop down menu entirely.
app-order-hide
As far as changing amount of apps shown before the … please look on the associated Github page here and create a request there. Imho, it would be nice to simply drag and drop icons into and out of the … menu from the browser. Edit: Hmm, looking into this a little further it might make sense to add this issue / feature request to Nextcloud Server.

fyi, Here is a somewhat related issue from a while back discussing option to customize whether icons + icon text names are shown and hidden in both the bar and … menu that remains unresolved.

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done at https://github.com/juliushaertl/apporder/issues/59

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For those bumping into this - Nextcloud 20 has increased the nr of apps on the top :wink:

It still won’t be enough for ppl who install all 200+ apps in our app store :crazy_face: but it should be a step forward and solve it for most.

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You could be interested in Custom menu

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The big change for this in Nextcloud 20 is… it breaks AppOrder’s ability to change the default app by forcing you to choose Dashboard when visiting your nextcloud; we cannot actually stop Dashboard from being the default app without editing configuration files in order to use AppOrder instead. I’d love to see this become a selectable ui option again. Link follows.