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 directory
kallithea/front-end/
inside the Kallithea installation, 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
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 Contributing to Kallithea for more details.