[support] Select different theme

[Metzler, David]

First feel the need to make sure you understand how it is supposed to
work: 
 
The "select different theme" is suppose to control who has permissions
to have a different theme than a site wide theme, that is a user
specific theme.   The themes that they are allowed to pick are
controlled by which themes are enabled in admin/build/themes.  If you
only have one theme enabled, then the user will not see the choice
regardless of permission. 
 
The ability to change a site wide theme is in fact controlled by the
"admister site configuration" theme.   You may find it strange, but I
guess there just haven't been enough use cases where you'd let someone
change atheme, but not hte site slogan or title to justify the feature
request. 
 
 
Well looks like you figured it out while I was writing this.  But
hitting send anyway just ofr the record. 

Dave

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of adept techlists - kazar
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 6:28 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Select different theme


On 2/7/11 9:21 AM, adept techlists - kazar wrote: 

	On 2/6/11 10:59 PM, Carl Wiedemann wrote:

		I'm not sure if this has changed in Drupal 7, but in
Drupal 6, users 
		need the permission "administer site configuration" in
order to access 
		the path admin/build/themes.

	just tested. Very strange that one must be allowed to administer
all 
	sub-items of site configuration in order to change the theme
which is 
	under site building.
	
	That one checkbox allows the role to do *everything* in site 
	configuration, which is not what Leonard is looking for.
	
	And then why is there a separate permission to "select different
theme" 
	under System Module in permissions? If I check the "administer
site 
	configuration" permission and /uncheck/ "select different theme"
the 
	user can still change & configure the site-wide theme.
	
	"huh?@!"
	


furthermore, it seems the option to allow a user to change the theme on
the account level is now missing (i'm still on  6.19). see att'd
screenshot of an account page (the theme is Abarre but i tested with
other themes applied site-wide and there still is no button or link to
change the theme on the user's account page)

kazar

 

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