[support] Select different theme

[Carl Wiedemann]

Changing the site's theme is a non-trivial operation, especially since there
is no guarantee that switched themes will have identical regions and block
settings vary between themes.

For those familiar with hook_menu_alter(), this could probably be used to
grant the access necessary from a custom module. Use with caution.


On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Metzler, David <metzlerd at evergreen.edu>wrote:

>  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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