[Galene] Re: defaults - like chat/user lists opened or closed

[Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>]

> Is there a recommended way to change the default of the standard
> galene.html interface - such as having the user and/or chat list open or
> closed once you've entered a group ?

The group's display name, which is stored in the .status JSON document
(see the function "start" at the very end of galene.js).  We could easily
extend this mechanism to other per-group data.

> Or is that very much not the idea - and one should simply edit the
> various js files and so on/make your own private interface.

For things that are global to the server, yes, you're expected to patch
the HTML/CSS/JavaScript at deployment time (just before you rsync the
static directory to your server).  Something like this:

    set -e
    CGO_ENABLED=0 GOAMD64=v3 go build -ldflags='-s -w'
    [ -f ../galene.patch ] && patch -p1 < ../galene.patch
    rsync -r galene static galene@galene.example.org:
    ssh root@galene.example.org systemctl restart galene

For things that are specific to just a few groups, that won't work, we'll
need to extend the .status mechanism.

-- Juliusz