diff --git a/phpgwapi/templates/idots/hook_settings.inc.php b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/hook_settings.inc.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5f051c24ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/hook_settings.inc.php
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?php
+	/**************************************************************************\
+	* eGroupWare - Preferences                                                 *
+	* http://www.eGroupWare.org                                                *
+	* --------------------------------------------                             *
+	*  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it *
+	*  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the   *
+	*  Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your  *
+	*  option) any later version.                                              *
+	\**************************************************************************/
+
+	/* $Id$ */
+
+	create_input_box('Max number of icons in navbar','max_icons',
+		'How many icons should be shown in the navbar (top of the page). Additional icons go into a kind of pulldown menu, callable by the icon on the far right side of the navbar.','',3);
diff --git a/preferences/preferences.php b/preferences/preferences.php
index d623d55a04..f6898d4635 100755
--- a/preferences/preferences.php
+++ b/preferences/preferences.php
@@ -503,6 +503,11 @@
 			$GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['navbar'][$_GET['appname']]['title'],PHPGW_SERVER_ROOT . SEP
 			. $_GET['appname'] . SEP . 'inc' . SEP . 'hook_settings.inc.php'));
 	}
+	$tmpl_settings = PHPGW_TEMPLATE_DIR.'/hook_settings.inc.php';
+	if ($_GET['appname'] == 'preferences' && file_exists($tmpl_settings))
+	{
+		include($tmpl_settings);
+	}
 
 	if (count($notifys))	// there have been notifys in the hook, we need to save in the session
 	{