428377 - Sync Themes

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Sync, enhancement)

Description

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Weave should sync Firefox themes

Should ensure that only themes compatible with the current machine are downloaded/enabled

Should check that the theme is compatible with the machines Firefox version before downloading

If the users last selected theme (on the last machine they used) is not the currently active theme then weave should offer to active and restart firefox to enable that theme.

Comment 1

[Dan Mills [:thunder]]

This is similar to syncing extensions.
Targeting for 0.3.

Comment 2

[Dan Mills [:thunder]]

These bugs need to be triaged, removing 0.3 milestone setting.

Comment 3

[Matthew Brown]

If themes are a subset of Add-ons, shouldn't this be marked as a duplicate of bug 534956 or at least blocking it?

Comment 4

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Matthew: not necessarily. One might want to sync add-ons but not themes, or vice versa, and the UI for application might differ.

Comment 5

[Matthew Brown]

I agree, but I guess my issue was just semantics. It seems that "Extensions" are what is usually meant when people refer to add-ons, even though Firefox uses it as a more general term.

Comment 6

[flying sheep]

looks like this is fixed.

i came to ask the opposite: how can i make sure that my *selected* theme isn’t synced?

i can’t find the relevant services.sync.prefs.sync.* setting, there’s only one regarding lightweight themes, not full ones.

Comment 7

[tvrabec]

Guys this is extremely annoying, how to stop this?
Using firefox from early of existence and for 5+ years using also Firefox for Developers.
I got dark theme for developers and light theme for normal one.
I need this visual separation for better orienting in my desktops.
How to stop disable sync of themes?

Comment 8

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

(In reply to flying sheep from comment #6)
> i came to ask the opposite: how can i make sure that my *selected* theme
> isn’t synced?
> 
> i can’t find the relevant services.sync.prefs.sync.* setting, there’s only
> one regarding lightweight themes, not full ones.

Unfortunately there's no way to do that for "full" themes - to complicate things, full themes seem likely to go away in the future.

(In reply to tvrabec from comment #7)
> I got dark theme for developers and light theme for normal one.
> I need this visual separation for better orienting in my desktops.
> How to stop disable sync of themes?

I believe these are light-weight themes, which you can disable by flipping the pref "services.sync.prefs.sync.lightweightThemes.selectedThemeID" to false.

Comment 9

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

This is fixed, but see bug 1367048, which calls for the ability to sync addons but not themes.