45951 - Installing profile chrome hides global chrome

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

If you install skin or locale chrome into your profile then the globally
installed skins or locales are not visible on the theme or language pickers.

Some part of the chrome registry must still be able to see global skins because
if I install but don't select my global skin is found OK, even if it's "Classic"
which means it's not just the "wacky-default" thing.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Attachment: My profile all-skins.rdf

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Place the all-skins.rdf in your profile chrome directory. A new skin will 
appear in the theme switcher (don't select it since you haven't actually got 
it) and the global skins are hidden.

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This bug will effectively prevent us from doing the Themes site for PR2 (user's 
will not be able to back out of a skin if they decide they don't like it) so 
nominating for beta2.  Hyatt thought it might be fairly simple.

Note the same thing happens for locales, I could supply a profile 
all-locales.rdf if you need it but I'm sure it must be the same rdf merging 
problem.

Comment 4

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

Putting on [nsbeta2+] radar for beta2 fix. 

Comment 5

[David Hyatt]

Fixed.

Comment 6

[John Morrison]

verified fixed 2000080204 win2k/mac9.0/linux(rh6.1) -- the global chrome
is available for selection along with the installed profile chrome 
(all-skins.rdf).