Classic Side-Menu

for Nextcloud and Owncloud

Rebuild of the old Menu on the left side for owncloud.

Advantages compared to the default menu of owncloud / nextcloud are reduced clicks to open an application, as the sidebar is always visible on wide screens (wider than 1100px). Otherwise, the standard drop-down menu is available on smaller screens. It lays the focus more on all installed apps and not only on the files app.

Forked from https://github.com/SansPseudoFix/Old_menu (discontinued). Differences: This version is without the tiny Icons (therefore normal sized) and with a fix max-width of 100px for the Menu. It looks like the original old menu.

How to

download zip
go to /apps folder
unzip
change name to classic_sidemenu
activate Classic SideMenu

Alternative

git clone this repo to /apps direcotry with git clone https://github.com/mtraeger/classic_sidemenu.git classic_sidemenu
activate in app menu

Complications

Problems could arise when using this app with the original old_menu app.

Change Menu Color

For use with NextCloud-Blue use

background-color: #0082c9;

instead of #1d2d44 for Owncloud in css/classic_sidemenu.css.

You can remove this line also for dark grey.

Possible Problems

On upgrades of owncloud / nextcloud the acces rights have to be correct. If you cloned or extracted with wrong user permissions, you have to chown (and maybe also chmod +w) the installation directory of this app for the web user (normally www-data).

TODOs