293483 - Have downloaded themes. Theme manager can not 'see' them. Why is there no file dialog box.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Roger Lee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

I have upgraded from Firefox 0.8 (nice) to Firefox 1.0.3 (ughh). I don't like
the skin given (Gerich and Horlander). So I've downloaded silver_skin, qute and
brushed for a tryout. I go to Tools/Themes. It shows the original skin (Gerich
and Horlander. I click update and Firefox goes off hunting for themes. Where ?
Anyone's guess. It comes back and says it can't find any. Stupid fox. It should
try asking me - ie if it gave me a file dialog box, I could tell it where the
themes have been put. But no, like Paul Daniels, it tries a little mind reading
and fails. I hope that this is not the future of Firefox, or else that would be
very grim.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.downloaded silver_skin, qute and brushed
2.go to Tools/Themes
3.click update

Actual Results:  
Firefox was not able to find any available updates

Expected Results:  
It should have found:
silver_skin, qute and brushed
and given me a change to fire one of these up.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Update means that FF goes to the Mozilla update server.
The Theme installation changed since 0.8 and it's possible that it doesn't work
because of that.
If you downloaded the files open the Theme manager and use drag&Drop from the
Windows file explorer to drag the Theme file on the Theme Manager.

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

invlalid per comment 1.