On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Dick Davies > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a way to limit what themes appear in the theme selector for a >> users blog? > > Yes, that is a good feature idea. > > I guess we could add a field to the theme.xml format for setting theme > type and then only show themes of type "Front Page" to admin users.
Thanks Dave; I've filed https://issues.apache.org/roller/browse/ROL-1751 to request it. >> Currently the themes we designed for our planet show up there too, but if >> users >> pick them they obviously don't work. Any workarounds? > > Here is a work around: > 1) set the Front Page theme for your front page blog > 2) choose customize on the Front Page theme (this will create your own > copy of the theme) > 3) remove the Front Page theme from the '/themes' directory. > > Your front page blog will still work because, in Roller 4.0 we made > sure that blog themes are completely encapsulated. When you customize > a theme, the theme files are copied to your blog's database tables and > the themes resources (style, script and image files) are copied to > your blog's file upload area. So, they will persist even after you > delete the theme. I'll see how much of a pain this is causing for the users before going down that route but it's good to have the option. Thanks! -- Rasputnik :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net/
