Request: include LESS package

[imc67]

According to the HumHub docs when you want to adjust colours of the themes in HumHub you have to create a Child-Theme and then edit .less files and then use LESS to compile them.

As far as I can discover LESS is not installed in the package and therefore you can't change colours.

https://docs.humhub.org/docs/theme/tutorial#step-2-adjust-colors-and-build-css

Step 2: Adjust colors and build CSS​

Installing prerequisites​

Install NodeJS

See: https://nodejs.org/en/download/

Install LESS

Open the command console and execute:

npm install less -g

[girish]

The whole HumHub docs disappeared...

[girish]

@imc67 I will try to add it once the docs come back Otherwise, I have no way to test.

[imc67]

ai this looks not good those 401's for such an organisation. I'll let you know when it's back.

[imc67]

@girish it’s working again

[girish]

@imc67 thanks! just taking a look now.

[girish]

@imc67 turns out even if we install lessc, building it is quite a pain because the build is referencing code outside the theme . i.e the theme is inside /app/data/theme/xxx but it's referencing with ../.. to reach into files inside /app/code . I guess this would have worked if Cloudron didn't use a separate directory.

I was able to build this quite easily on the desktop though:

• wget https://download.humhub.com/downloads/install/humhub-1.15.2.tar.gz
• Extract above
• cd humhub-1.15.2/themes
• cp -r HumHub Example # copy over them
• Make theme changes as desired
• cd Example/less and then lessc build.less ../css/theme.css

I used the CLI tool to push the files : cloudron push --app humhub Example /app/data/themes/ . Of course, you can always zip up that folder and upload it via File manager.

Then, I select Example in the Appearance.

[imc67]

@girish thank you very much for your efforts to find a solution, it’s quite a workaround but worth it!

[robi]

It seems like they could use a gallery of cool custom themes for download..