This is not my app that I have designed, and I am not going to say anything negative about the choice of changing the Vikunja App Icon to reflect pride month. Is there a way for a person who has this deployed to either:
- Change the icon to the DEFAULT one we typically
- Hide the icon all together
My reason is simple and it is mine, but I feel like as much as I use this app and as “public” as I have it for my family users. I am not asking anyone to remove it from the app as a development and option, but would like the option of one above to provide fair and tolerant options for my use case
Thank you
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So I found the environment variable but nothing inside the application is allowing that I can find.
VIKUNJA_SERVICE_ALLOWICONCHANGES: true
If you set this to false the pride flag will disappear.
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So setting it FALSE allows the Icon Change? That seems really backwards and the documentation says nothing like that.
I finally got it working by taking all the ENVIRONMENT variables in my compose and putting them in a config file that the app accesses.
Thanks
If you set it to true (the default), the logo will change to the pride logo in June. Docs about this here. There is no user setting for this, regardless of what the variable is set to.
Okay… guess that makes sense. Seeing all the notes about this in this site it might be better to make it set to “true” by default.
I have no personal issue with anyone but there are cases where things being actively used in scenarios where that would be highly inappropriate and I had zero clue this was even an option. Then there is the whole thing of choosing 1 single group, thing, holiday, event (whatever you want to refer it to) and excluding all the others… especially when the LGBQT people I know are about inclusion not exclusion.
Your app though so…
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But that’s what it is set to by default?
I never had that setting. Did not know it even existed. 06/01 my container switched to using that icon without me doing anything.
It did not go away until I got the variable and set it correctly.
I do not “mess” with my docker compose yanks unless I have to so that one had been static for almost a year while I used this app.
Love the app but that was not my experience so maybe something was off on my container.
How did you do this? I have the same issue and setting this in my compose .env file is not working. Thanks!
I had to create a config.yml and point the docker compose to mount that file so it could be used with all the configurations.
Then remarked them out of my compose file as that would not work for me
I mounted the config.yml file correctly, but still no dice. Are you saying that I need to completely eliminate my .env and move every environment property to config.yml? Sheesh this is a pain 
I believe that was wheat I did…. I am mobile and viewing my compose on a phone is kind of a pain. I will try to get a copy of the compose and the config files ina little bit and post them
So here is my compose for Vikunja:
Here is a link to the config.yml file. It formatted much better at pastebin
Thank you - I will give that a try today. In your config.yml file however, you still have:
allowiconchanges: true
Yeah, apparently that is what takes away the seasonal changing icon by flipping it to true it allows it to be changed to the default icon all the time. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. I would’ve thought it should’ve been false and use fault at first and it didn’t work and then the guy instructed me to use true.
Thank you for your assistance - I’ve tried with docker compose environment variables and the config.yml file – both true and false and can’t get rid of that icon. I’m out of time messing with this and am switching to focalboard where I don’t have to get somebody’s politics thrown in my face.
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Completely understand. I was already researching a way to export from this to another Self Hosted when this happened and I could not get it working for a while. Still have it on my radar to move as I am not wanting the political either.
I mean if they were switching the icon for every blasted government approved holiday then I might find it balanced… still would not want it, but to choose 1 because it is “your political choice” for a Self Hosted app is honestly childish and really, really unprofessional.
THANK YOU! The moment I found this I had to implement it.