How do we access all the themes?

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There are a lot more themes built into FileMaker than we see displayed in the theme selector. I recognise a lot of them from earlier versions of FileMaker. I'm wondering how FileMaker decides which themes to offer us. Looking at the manifest in the different themes I'm struggling to find differences in the XML that would trigger FileMaker to say "ignore me." Does anyone know what causes themes to be displayed in the selector?

For the record, here's the list of themes including in FileMaker v21

  1. apex_blue
  2. bamboo
  3. beach
  4. black
  5. blue
  6. canyon
  7. Classic
  8. cool
  9. cool_brown
  10. cool_gray
  11. cool_gray_touch
  12. cosmos
  13. dark
  14. desert
  15. electric
  16. enlightened
  17. enlightened_print
  18. enlightened_touch
  19. forest
  20. green
  21. ice
  22. light
  23. luminous
  24. luminous_touch
  25. meadow
  26. minimalist
  27. minimalist_touch
  28. ocean
  29. ocean_touch
  30. onyx
  31. onyx_touch
  32. pine
  33. purple
  34. quarry
  35. red
  36. retro
  37. river
  38. river_touch
  39. shell
  40. silver
  41. sky
  42. sophisticated
  43. sophisticated_touch
  44. stone
  45. tranquil
  46. tranquil_touch
  47. universal_touch
  48. vibrant
  49. vibrant_touch
  50. warm
  51. warm_blue
  52. warm_bronze
  53. warm_green
  54. wave
  55. wave_touch
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They're hidden when the butt_ugly flag is set to 1 :slight_smile:

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My guess is that a lot of these themes are from older versions and are still hanging around just in case a user would open an old file. «Claris doesn't want to push them anymore.

Cold there be some flag for those older themes that would mean 'don't list me' ?

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@weetbicks :laughing: I was always fond of bamboo. I want a rule: anybody who dunks on themes should submit a PNG of one of their own themes.

The other thing about themes is that every single theme packaged was better than every layout designed before themes came along.

@planteg They must be doing something internally. I was hoping that the manifest.xml would carry an element or an attribute but it doesn't seem to be.

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@Malcolm I liked 'bamboo' as well. I HATE Apex Blue. I wish the default was Minimalist.

I created my own theme when upgrading from FMP19.6 to FMP21.1. I have 20 files that serve many purposes , only six or so are used daily by us in accounting.

I wanted them all to look the same. I eliminated the use of Table-View (for the most part).

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