Remove Home tab from navigation in Volto

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What's the right way to hide the home tab with Volto?

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Like in Plone Classic, remove it from the actions.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<object xmlns:i18n="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/i18n"
        meta_type="Plone Actions Tool"
        name="portal_actions"
>
  <action-provider name="portal_actions" />
  <object meta_type="CMF Action Category"
          name="portal_tabs"
  >
    <object meta_type="CMF Action"
            name="index_html"
            i18n:domain="plone"
    >
      <property name="visible">False</property>
    </object>
  </object>
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Fair enough!
because

#navigation > div > ul > li:nth-child(1) > button {
    display: none;
}

wasn't feeling right.

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In the forum a hint on the location where the snippet has to go (not in Volto but into the backend!) a link to the docs may help others.

Using Generic Setup XML is not covered in Plone 6 docs only actions here
Portal Actions — Plone Documentation v6 (ZMI or ClassicUI)
Portal Actions — Plone Documentation v6 (API)

For Plone 5 you find
https://5.docs.plone.org/develop/plone/functionality/actions.html
And the Generic Setup syntax:
https://5.docs.plone.org/develop/addons/components/genericsetup.html#actions-xml

So until then ClassicUI is a valid option if you can reach it. Not just "like" but it is obvious not in the filesystem code.

I opened a Docs ticket #1896 to at least add Generic Setup to the Glossary as starting point, until more docs are updated.

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Should it be made clearer that GenericSetup is the preferred way to customize policies when creating a theme package? And also that you can import/export the XML with all your customizations in the ZMI and use it to populate the various profile settings?

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For us this is maybe obvious. But for our new Volto only audiences this is buried in the backend and in Docs <= Version 5. We need to lift that to Plone 6 backend without too much overhead.

Actions is a good starting point without postponing it until we have all the bells an whistles (and then it may confuse) What I actually did not search was the training section. But we need this as reference docs.

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@stevepiercy pointed to an existing stalled ticket related to the state of the Generic Setup docs. Port GenericSetup docs · Issue #1754 · plone/documentation · GitHub it is already converted to MyST and needs backend love…