Hello Discourse wizards,
I’d like to do some or all of the following, if possible, within a theme (I don’t have think I have the chops to do understand how to make a plugin yet):
- insert the messages glyph from the user menu into the header, complete with its popup of recent messages.
- give this header messages glyph a new-message indicator (and remove it from the user avatar)
- remove the messages glyph from the user menu
I know that I can put a messages link in the header like so
<script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8">
const { iconNode } = require("discourse-common/lib/icon-library");
api.decorateWidget('header-icons:before', helper => {
return helper.h('li', [
helper.h('a.icon', {
href:'/my/messages',
title: 'Messages'
}, iconNode('envelope')),
]);
});
</script>
But it lacks the popup.
I found the following code in the user menu js:
if (this.siteSettings.enable_personal_messages || this.currentUser.staff) {
glyphs.push(this.messagesGlyph());
}
But I don’t know if I can apply it within a theme, or how.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!