dedicated plugin for menu .title only

[Mariusthvdb]

with the latest changes in Frontend breaking a lot of stuff I many custom plugins, I have been trying to figure out how to mitigate best, and still keep using as many new core Frontend features as possible.

You know I did have trouble with the sidebar elements (and you probably have fixed them already..) but during that process of testing, I went back to card-mod for modifying all of my sidebar items.

And the menu title.

As this is 2026, I just figured we could now set a title of choice to that menu title, but apparently we still can't.... so, I opened a discussion in the Home Assistant repo

all of this made me wish for a small dedicated plugin that would only see to modifying the menu title, as in effect it doesn't not really belong to the sidebar after all...
in your words: #567 (comment)

now why would we need that dedicated plugin :

I believe it would be useful for users that only need to modify the menu title, and leave all other settings of the sidebar to core Frontend.
It could be much smaller for that matter, and have fewer interfaces that could go south, if and when the Frotnend would see yet more changes to the sidebar, and those have been planned already....see home-assistant/frontend#29572

cut it short: would you be willing to consider making a dedicated plugin for that, with the options we now have in the complete plugin?

[elchininet]

Hi @Mariusthvdb,
I didn't see this discussion.
A plugin for the title would be indeed very small (just query for the title element and change its content). But just to change the title it would be a bit too much to load a yaml with the title string. What is your idea to store the title string of such a plugin? (localStorage is one solution but it will be wiped if you clean the front-end data).