paddelberg/taskbar-links

Plugin to add links in taskbar.

dev-main 2026-02-11 01:28 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.6
• roundcube/plugin-installer: >=0.3.0

MIT

• link
• roundcube
• taskbar

README

A plugin to add links to Roundcube taskbar / navigation menu

Description

Add links to the Roundcube taskbar.
Works with the skins Elastic, Classic and Larry. With Elastic, icons are displayed; with Classic and Larry, only links are displayed.

Dependencies

testet with Roundcube
1.5.13 and php 5.6
1.6.0 and php 7.3
1.7-rc2 and php 8.4
Plugin Installer 0.3 and above

Installing

with Composer

add to roundcube composer.json

"require": {
    "paddelberg/taskbar-links": "dev-main"
}

then run composer update

manual installation

Download code at https://github.com/paddelberg/taskbar-links
Create a folder named taskbar_links in the Roundcube plugin folder and upload the code to the folder.
Then add the plugin to Roundcube config/config.inc.php

$config['plugins'] = array(
    '...',
    'taskbar_links'
);

Configuration

add your configuration to Roundcube config/config.inc.php

example configuration:

$config['taskbar_links'] = array (
    '0' => array (
        'url' =>  'https://example.com',
        'label' => 'link', # text/language - link, cloud, calendar, video, image - to add more, see readme file
        'target' => '_blank', # link target
        'user_ids' => '', # show only for this user ids (comma-separated list of user ids), leave blank to show for all users
        'icon' => 'link' # link, cloud, calendar, video, image -> only elastic skin - to add more, see readme file
    ),
    '1' => array (
        'url' =>  'https://example.com',
        'label' => 'cloud',
        'target' => '_blank', 
        'user_ids' => '1,2,3,50', # show only to user ids 1,2,3 and 50
        'icon' => 'cloud'
    )

Add Link text/ icon label

Note that the language files will be overwritten during an update with Composer.

to ad a new text for a link (or label for a icon) open the language file in localization folder ofe this plugin and, for example, add

$labels['your_label'] = 'your text';

in this example, you can use "your_label" in configuration as label to show the new text

Add icons

Note that the skin files will be overwritten during an update with Composer.

To add an new icon open css file in skins/elastic/ and add

#taskmenu a.button-taskbar-links-{ICON-NAME}:before {
    content: "\f03e"
}

Replace {ICON-NAME} with the name for the icon you want to use in configuration
for Icons see https://fontawesome.com/v4/icons/
choose the Icon you want to use and copy the unicode sign for the icon and paste it into content of the css rule

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details