elgg_register_menu_item('topbar', array(
 'name' => 'menu',
 'parent_name' => 'account',
 'href' => "action/menu",
 'text' => elgg_echo('menu'),
 'is_action' => true,
 'section' => 'alt',
));

Thank you Rohit Gupta.

I did it, and the "menu" item appears under "account". However, I need the whole "site" menu to move there i.e. 

• Activity
• Blogs
• Bookmarks
• Discussions
• More
• etc

and then, remove the "site" menu from its original location.

I mean - move the whole "site" menu in one stroke - not item by item.

As @RVR said Elgg saves an entity icon in .JPG format always, and JPG does not support transparent background.

However, the fact is that with GD php extension, Elgg retain the transparency of PNG even though the image file name has JPG suffix. The reason for this is that Elgg does not transform PNG to JPG. It just replaces the suffixes, i.e PNG -> JPG. I checked this phenomena (replacing the suffixes) outside Elgg's environment and found the same. The browsers (Chrome, FF and IE) retain the transparency and animation of PNG and GIF, even though the suffix of the files is JPG.

@iionly said:

Tidypics keeps the image format unchanged when resizing/creating the thumbnails and it uses the Imagick php extension directly

Now we know that Elgg also keeps the format unchanged (changes only the suffix - which is not the best practice IMHO). I believe it is possible to build a plugin that replicates the functionality of Tidypics, and handle all the images of Elgg through Imagick php extension directly. In this way the problem with the PNG transparency will be solved. 

Could someone suggest how to do it?

Thank you very much.

I think it wouldn't be that easy to write such a plugin. The point is: Elgg core makes use of the Imagine library to use the same set of API functions regardless if GD or Imagick php are used. Imagine "translates" the functions accordingly. Also, Elgg most likely currently expects that the images (profile images, entity icons and file thumbnails) have the jpg suffix regardless what file type the files really are. If the png files would now suddenly saved with png extensions they would probably not getting served.

The problem with the image file creation could probably be solved by replacing all Elgg core actions with modified versions that use their own set of image resizing functions (like Tidypics does). Probably the output file type issue could also be fixed somehow - but don't ask me for any details as I wouldn't have them right now.

The question is if it couldn't be solved by improving the Imagick plugin and/or using a newer version of the Imagine library as Elgg core currently does. These questions might be best answered by the Coldtrick guys as they might know best. Unfortunately, I can't provide any more help currently just due to lack of detailed knowledge.

Unfortunately, the new version of Imagine does not solve the problem.

Anyway, thank you very much.

I want to add a "close" text to the system messages, e.g. <p style="text-align: right; color: #e8f907;">close</p>.

​Below you'll see my added code to messages.php and elgglib.js. It works well when I change the core (temporarily of course). I've not yet overridden it with a plugin but I believe it will work. However, I think that since the system messages are triggered by events, it should be possible to add the code through a plugin hook, but I do not know how to do it.

Thank you very much.

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In messages.php the code is:

please note my added code in the comment "my addition". 

echo '<ul class="elgg-system-messages">';


// hidden li so we validate

echo '<li class="hidden"></li>';


if (isset($vars['object']) && is_array($vars['object']) && sizeof($vars['object']) > 0) {

foreach ($vars['object'] as $type => $list ) {

foreach ($list as $message) {

echo "<li class=\"elgg-message elgg-state-$type\">";

echo elgg_autop($message);

echo '<p style="text-align: right; color: #e8f907;">close</p>';//==== my addition

echo '</li>';

}

}

}


echo '</ul>';

And in elgglib.js, the code is:

please note my added code in the comment "my addition". 

elgg.system_messages = function(msgs, delay, type) {

if (elgg.isUndefined(msgs)) {

return;

}


var classes = ['elgg-message'],

messages_html = [],

appendMessage = function(msg) {

messages_html.push('<li class="' + classes.join(' ') + '"><p>' + msg + 
'</p><p style="text-align: right; color: #e8f907;">close</p></li>');//=== my addition

},

systemMessages = $('ul.elgg-system-messages'),

i;

.... etc....

Just override this view:

views/default/page/elements/messages.php

as

/mod/your_plugin/views/default/page/elements/messages.php

And this:

views/default/elgg.js.php

as

/mod/your_plugin/views/default/elgg.js.php

Where add location of your rewritted elgglib.js instead of

$elggDir->getPath("js/lib/elgglib.js"),

Works great.

views/default/elgg.js.php is new to me... good to know :)

Thank you very much RvR

Discussed already: https://elgg.org/discussion/view/2858248/change-image-memory-in-tidypics-23#elgg-object-2858309

You can try this plugin also: https://github.com/ColdTrick/imagick

Works perfectly especially with the plugin.

Thank you very much

Well done RVR

And warm regards to ColdTrick as well :)