New admin theme vs custom themes?

[sreichel]

Summary (*)

I've tested the admin theme (#1008) only with vanilla LTS and it worked like a charm. After updating some shops to latest LTS i had to realize that all shops made changes to admin templates. Instead of changing default templates, they added a new theme that is based on default ... (seems correct to me)

    <stores>
        <admin>
            <design>
                <package>
                    <name>default</name>
                </package>
                <theme>
                    <default>default</default>
                    <template>some_name</template>
                </theme>
            </design>
        </admin>
    </stores>

So "openmage admin theme" is never loaded ...

• it shows default login page (default templates loaded)
• only loads default css

Examples (*)

See above.

Proposed solution

• add "openmage" to fallback logic? NO! (???)

or

• replace default admin theme with add OpenMage admin theme and theme switcher #1008
• remove admin theme switcher

It is just CSS and should break nothing.

[aterjung]

ok, this behavior is intended to be shure custom themes are not affected. The shops i am supporting all use the default theme so i did not see this as a problem. Did you check if the themes would break if you change the base theme to openmage?

[sreichel]

Did you check if the themes would break if you change the base theme to openmage?

Yes, i did. It shows openmage theme, but the theme-switcher does not work anymore.

[sreichel]

Do we still need the default theme, or can we (@aterjung) replace it? Actually it does not work with common (?) template rewrites.

[Flyingmana]

We can not replace it for backwards compatibility reasons, we could just copy it, which would increase the needed maintenance

[aterjung]

I am not shure if I understand the Problem! If there is a custom theme, isn’t it right to ignore the openmage theme? Is the Problem that the theme switch dose not switch to openmage theme then? Is this really a problem? Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker (FH)

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[kiatng]

@aterjung An example to the problem: I have a custom template in app\design\adminhtml\default\ihe\template\sales\order\view\history.phtml, where I set my custom theme called ihe, where I added the admin user name to show which comment is made by who. Now, if I want to use the openmage theme, how do I fallback to it?

As suggested by @sreichel, one way is to replace the default theme with openmage.

Another way is make a new package for openmage, I actually prefer this, for infinite theme fallback.