Add user information items (avatar and edit profile information)

Using the brand new hook_simplemenu_tree_alter(), I've written this simple module. Place it into your Simplemenu 2.x directory and enable it.

I like Admin hello message for logged in users, and I like avatar on bar like Wordpress, so I try to combine the two (Screenshot attached).

Added items are:

avatar + username

View

Go to user profile

Edit

• Account settings
• Category 1
• ...
• Category N

Logout

A logout link

Any element has yours css classes, so I place it on right, leaving left side of the bar for Content creation.

Here some additional CSS I've added on my theme:

#simplemenu,
#simplemenu li,
#simplemenu li a {
  padding-top: 0;
  padding-bottom: 0;
  line-height: 30px !important;
  height: 30px !important;
}
/** IE6 compatibility **/
#simplemenu li,
#simplemenu li a {
  float: left;
}
#simplemenu li li a {
  float: none !important;
}
#simplemenu .simplemenu-hello-username,
#simplemenu .simplemenu-hello-logout {
  float: right;
}
/** Leave some space for block-search **/
#simplemenu .simplemenu-hello-logout {
  margin-right: 200px;
}
/** Block search on top **/
#block-search-0 {
  position: absolute;
  top: -33px;
  right: 0;
  z-index: 100000;
}
#block-search-0 label {
  display: none;
}

Ideally, avatar + username children should be populated with user local task the current user has access to (tabs on user profile), but I don't know how to do this, so I've copied some code from user_menu() to get user categories.

Suggestion to complete this module are welcomed, it's almost independent from core module thanks to hook_simplemenu_tree_alter().

P.S. To complete this account bar for anonymous, a login form (maybe using compact_forms) should be provided. A similar issue is active on #397246: Built-in login form?. I try to inject form items into simplemenu, but results are disappointing.