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Summary:
Add user icons to the river and activity items.
Full description:
This is a little plugin that modifies the river item wrapper and css to show the profile icon of each user next to the activity (and river) items.
The size of the icons can be changed in the plugin settings (four sizes available: medium, small, tiny and topbar) and also there is a settings option to adjust their size to that of the tiny activity type icon.
The icons include by default the user context menu, but this can also be changed in the settings.
INSTALLATION:
To install just extract in the 'mod' folder and enable the plugin.
SCREENSHOTS:
New settings screen:
River items with adjusted icon size:
Activity widget with medium icons:

CHANGELIST:
v0.3
- Added small clock next to the time display (idea & icon from the '3 column dashboard' plugin).
- Added option to adjust user icon size to that of the small activity type icon (idea from Alex Tanchoco).
- Added option to remove the user icon context menu.
- Spanish translation included.
Nice, I'll check this out once my site gets back up.
RPicard 302 days ago
Installed, works great! Thanks.
RPicard 302 days ago
I installed this plugin in 1.6.1, working nicely. Didn't think it would make such a difference, but always amazing how little changes, can make the whole experience much better. Thank you.
Regards,
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Uddhava dasa 300 days ago
Like they say, be careful what you wish for coz you may just get it! Well, what I wished for I got, and thankful. Wonderful work Fitosan! Sorry I got tied up - didn't get to try it out till now. Thank you.
Alex Tanchoco 297 days ago
Nice thanks.
Is there a way to add some padding space between the avatar image and the small icon?
Looks like only 1 pixel between them now.
elgguzer 284 days ago
Does anyone know how to get the avatar of the person being tagged in TidyPics onto the riverdashboard?
abandoned 253 days ago
@Alex You're welcome, I'm glad you liked it :)
@elgguzer Just modify the css file inside the module (mod/riverfaces/views/default/riverfaces/css.php), change the "margin-left: 45px;" inside .river_item_padding_small to the value you want.
@AnnaBitanga There is a problem in the TidyPics plugin when creating the riverdashboard photo tags' notification item, for some strange reason it sets the image as the "subject" of the notification and the tagged user as the "object" when all other notifications work the other way around.
Fitosan 253 days ago
You're clearly a very talented person with an eye for what works.... thank you very much!
jace 253 days ago
Re: tidypics. Subject is normally the one who does the action. In this case it would normally be the one who tagged the person in the photo. Tidypics needed 3 columns of object ids which isn't provided by Elgg: the person who did the tagging, the photo, and the person who was tagged. With Elgg 1.7 there is a new column in the river table for annotations which should clean up this problem.
Cash 253 days ago
@Cash I understand that 3 ids would be needed for making the notification "perfect", but imho having only two possible ids it makes no sense setting the photo tag as the subject, specially if in all the other river notifications the subject is the user the notification is about. Anyway it is something relatively easy to solve for the current version.
By the way, it's great to hear that Elgg 1.7 will have an additional column in the river table, it was certainly needed (actually in one of my installations I added such a column and used it for some custom stuff).
Fitosan 253 days ago
@Fitosan
Nice work!
I hope the CSS for the normal view and the CSS for the widget are separate.
Blue 209 days ago
Great plugin, works well out of the box. Many thanks for sharing it :-)
moosh101 188 days ago
@Blue Hmm, I guess you can always dupplicate the css styles adding a ".collapsable_box_content" or just ".collapsable_box" before each style selector and those should only affect the widget.
@moosh101 Glad to hear that you liked it :)
Fitosan 188 days ago
I'm trying to use this plugin with the 3 column river dashboard from fusion with no success. After activating your plugin there is no change in the appearance of the activities. I have the settings as in your example above.
sunwest 154 days ago

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This is great, good alternate to 3 column riverdashboard. Good job :)
Cube 302 days ago