[drupal-devel] [feature] create system option to prevent users from changing the theme

[Bèr Kessels]

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http://drupal.org/node/26302
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 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      4.6.0
 Component:    system.module
 Category:     feature requests
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  Torenware
 Reported by:  Torenware
 Updated by:   Bèr Kessels
 Status:       patch

I think we should simply rename the "enabled" into "selecatble". Or any
better term.
For the only thing tha checkbox does is enable it for users to select.
It does not enable or disable the theme at all.




Bèr Kessels



Previous comments:
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July 4, 2005 - 02:50 : Torenware

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/add-user-themable-option.diff (1.86 KB)

>From the forum thread How To Prevent Users From Changing The Theme.  I
asked:


"
I'm working on a module that uses organic groups. I want to allow
different groups to choose different themes, but I don't want
individual users to have that capability.


I'm assuming that this is easy to do, but I can't find a setting. Can
anybody point me in the right direction?


Thanks,
Rob


"
At sepeck's suggestion, I'm submitting a patch to do this.  It's
against 4.6.0, and modifies theme.inc and system.module.  It creates a
variable 'configurable_user_themes' which defaults to "enabled"
(4.6.0's current behavior), and if activated, makes system.module
remove the UI for selected a theme, and also causes theme.inc to ignore
any setting for $user->theme if it exists.




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July 4, 2005 - 02:54 : Torenware

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/add-user-themable-option_0.diff (1.86 KB)

Didn't set this to "patch" initially, so I'm including the patch again. 
Not sure what the procedure is just yet.




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July 4, 2005 - 06:07 : TDobes

-1 -- sorry, but I feel that we should use a different method for this
sort of thing.  Any theme that is checked in the admin-> themes screen
should be selectable by users.  Modules should get their list of
available themes from list_themes(), which provides a list of all
available themes, not just those that are selected for use by users.