1259767 - Themes option not available in Customize Mode while using a complete theme

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Iulia Cristescu, QA [:JuliaC] (away, please needinfo? [e-mail])]

Attachment: complete theme vs default theme.png

[Affected versions]:
- 46.0b5-build2 (20160324011246)

[Affected platforms]:
- Windows 10 x64
- Windows 8 x64
- Mac OS X 10.10.5
- Ubuntu 14.04 x86

[Steps to reproduce]:
1. Launch Firefox with a new profile.
2. Install a complete theme (e.g. from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/complete-themes/). 
3. Restart the browser to complete the theme installation. 
4. Enter Customize Mode via menu (≡) → Customize.
5. Inspect the available options.

[Expected result]:
- The user should be able to access all the Customize options, including Themes option, like in the Default theme or in a lightweight one.

[Actual result]:
- Themes option is missing from Customize Mode.

[Additional notes]:
- Reproducible also with 44.0RC build 2 
- The issue is not a recent regression

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Pretty sure this is intentional -- bug 1073240 added code to explicitly hide this button when not using the default theme. Lightweight themes can't work without the complete theme supporting it, so we don't want to show a button that might not work.

I'm not sure what the state of support is for this, though. IIRC at one point some theme authors were interested in having this work, but I'm not sure if that happened of if Firefox can tell if a complete theme supports LWTs... Gijs? (Doesn't really matter, since complete theme support is being deprecated.)

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Justin Dolske [:Dolske] from comment #1)
> Pretty sure this is intentional -- bug 1073240 added code to explicitly hide
> this button when not using the default theme. Lightweight themes can't work
> without the complete theme supporting it, so we don't want to show a button
> that might not work.
> 
> I'm not sure what the state of support is for this, though. IIRC at one
> point some theme authors were interested in having this work, but I'm not
> sure if that happened of if Firefox can tell if a complete theme supports
> LWTs... Gijs? (Doesn't really matter, since complete theme support is being
> deprecated.)

I don't *think* so, but Mossop can confirm for sure.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Bug 520124 was the plan, but now the plan is to drop complete themes at some point. Either way, yes it is intentional that you can't do this right now.

Comment 4

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Seconding Mossop, this was by design.

Closing this as "wontfix" since we are planning on dropping complete theme support.