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Thomas De Schampheleire
files: remove need for webhelpers.html.literal

The following code is unnecessarily complex:
h.literal(_('There are no files yet. %s') % add_new)

First of all, the '%s' part in the translatable string is a whole new
sentence, independent of the first. There is no reason it needs to be part
of the same translatable string.

Secondly, the only reason for h.literal is to preserve the link in
'add_new' (which contains the result of 'h.link_to'). But, h.link_to
actually already is a 'literal' object. The problem is that the special
'literal' property is lost due to the coercion into a plain string via the
'%' operator.

The following code would be a possible solution for the second issue:
h.HTML(_('There are no files yet. %s')) % add_new
i.e. make sure that the format string is not a plain string but itself a
literal object (after its contents being escaped), before applying the '%'
operator.

To handle the first issue, this would become:
h.HTML(_('There are no files yet.')) + ' ' + h.HTML(add_new)
but, here h.HTML is unnecessary on the first string because there is nothing
special about it, and equally unnecessary on the 'add_new' variable because
h.link_to already returns a literal object.

So, the final code becomes:
_('There are no files yet.') + ' ' + add_new
.. _customization:

=============
Customization
=============

There are several ways to customize Kallithea to your needs depending on what
you want to achieve.


HTML/JavaScript/CSS customization
---------------------------------

To customize the look-and-feel of the web interface (for example to add a
company banner or some JavaScript widget or to tweak the CSS style definitions)
you can enter HTML code (possibly with JavaScript and/or CSS) directly via the
*Admin > Settings > Global > HTML/JavaScript customization
block*.


Style sheet customization with Less
-----------------------------------

Kallithea uses `Bootstrap 3`_ and Less_ for its style definitions. If you want
to make some customizations, we recommend to do so by creating a ``theme.less``
file. When you create a file named ``theme.less`` in the Kallithea root
directory, you can use this file to override the default style. For example,
you can use this to override ``@kallithea-theme-main-color``,
``@kallithea-logo-url`` or other `Bootstrap variables`_.

After creating the ``theme.less`` file, you need to regenerate the CSS files, by
running::

    kallithea-cli front-end-build --no-install-deps

.. _bootstrap 3: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/
.. _bootstrap variables: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/customize/#less-variables
.. _less: http://lesscss.org/


Behavioral customization: rcextensions
--------------------------------------

Some behavioral customization can be done in Python using ``rcextensions``, a
custom Python package that can extend Kallithea functionality.

With ``rcextensions`` it's possible to add additional mappings for Whoosh
indexing and statistics, to add additional code into the push/pull/create/delete
repository hooks (for example to send signals to build bots such as Jenkins) and
even to monkey-patch certain parts of the Kallithea source code (for example
overwrite an entire function, change a global variable, ...).

To generate a skeleton extensions package, run::

    kallithea-cli extensions-create -c my.ini

This will create an ``rcextensions`` package next to the specified ``ini`` file.
See the ``__init__.py`` file inside the generated ``rcextensions`` package
for more details.


Behavioral customization: code changes
--------------------------------------

As Kallithea is open-source software, you can make any changes you like directly
in the source code.

We encourage you to send generic improvements back to the
community so that Kallithea can become better. See :ref:`contributing` for more
details.