discourse/spec/support
Martin Brennan 19af83d39e
FEATURE: Themeable site settings (#32233)
This commit introduces the concept of themeable site settings,
which is a new tool for theme authors that lives alongside theme
modifiers and theme settings. Here is a quick summary:

* Theme settings - These are custom settings used to control UI and functionality within your theme or component and provide configuration options. These cannot change core Discourse functionality.
* Theme modifiers - Allows a theme or a component to modify selected server-side functionality of core Discourse as an alternative to building a plugin.
* Themeable site settings (new) - Allows a theme (not components) to override a small subset of core site settings, which generally control parts of the UI and other minor functionality. This allows themes to have a greater control over the full site experience.

Themeable site settings will be shown for all themes, whether the theme
changes
the value or not, and have a similar UI to custom theme settings.

We are also introducing a new page at
`/admin/config/theme-site-settings` that
allows admins to see all possible themeable site settings, and which
themes
are changing the value from the default.

### Configuration

Theme authors can configure initial values themeable site settings using
a section in the `about.json` file like so:

```json
"theme_site_settings": {
  "search_experience": "search_field"
}
```

These values will not change when the theme updates, because we cannot
know if admins have manually changed them.

### Limitations

Themeable site settings are only really intended to control elements of
the UI, and when retrieving their value we require a theme ID, so these
limitations apply:

- Themeable site settings cannot be used in Sidekiq jobs
- Themeable site settings cannot be used in markdown rules
- Themeable site settings will be cached separately to client site
settings using theme ID as a key
- Themeable site settings will override keys on the `siteSettings`
service on the client using the application preloader
- `SiteSetting.client_settings_json` will not include themeable site
settings, instead you can call `SiteSetting.theme_site_settings_json`
with a theme ID

### Initial settings

There are only two site settings that will be themeable to begin with:

* `enable_welcome_banner`
* `search_experience`

And our new Horizon theme will take advantage of both. Over time, more
settings that control elements of the UI will be exposed this way.
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locales DEV: Upgrade Rails to version 7.1 2024-07-04 10:58:21 +02:00
shared_examples FEATURE: Themeable site settings (#32233) 2025-07-16 11:00:21 +10:00
backups_helpers.rb DEV: Add backup helpers for specs (#28394) 2024-08-16 14:51:57 +10:00
bookmarkable_helper.rb
concurrency.rb DEV: Fix various rubocop lints (#24749) 2023-12-06 23:25:00 +01:00
diagnostics_helper.rb DEV: track client ids published to message bus (#32878) 2025-05-23 14:23:50 +10:00
discourse_event_helper.rb
dom_matcher.rb DEV: Update minitest to 5.19.0 (#22821) 2023-07-27 12:18:40 +02:00
fake_bookmark_hashtag_data_source.rb DEV: Introduce enabled? API to hashtag data sources (#22632) 2023-07-18 09:39:01 +10:00
fake_logger.rb DEV: Upgrade Rails to version 7.1 2024-07-04 10:58:21 +02:00
fake_s3.rb DEV: Bump aws-sdk-core in prep for aws-sdk-mediaconvert (#33250) 2025-06-20 16:41:01 -06:00
fast_image_helpers.rb
final_destination_helper.rb
helpers.rb FIX: allow tags to be restricted to admin only (#32493) 2025-04-29 09:09:57 +05:30
i18n_helpers.rb DEV: Upgrade Rails to version 7.1 2024-07-04 10:58:21 +02:00
imap_helper.rb DEV: lint against Layout/EmptyLineBetweenDefs (#24914) 2023-12-15 23:46:04 +08:00
integration_helpers.rb
match_html_matcher.rb DEV: Remove invalid parsing options (#30545) 2025-01-03 13:17:49 +01:00
mock_git_importer.rb
negated_matcher.rb
omniauth_helpers.rb DEV: More system specs for signup/login (#27150) 2024-05-23 10:01:05 -03:00
onebox_helpers.rb DEV: Introduce core features system specs for plugins 2025-03-27 12:12:01 +01:00
problem_check_matcher.rb DEV: Move non scheduled problem checks to classes (#26122) 2024-03-14 10:55:01 +08:00
rate_limit_matcher.rb
sample_plugin_site_settings.yml FIX: Sort plugins by their setting category name (#25128) 2024-01-08 09:57:25 +10:00
service_matchers.rb DEV: Display better output when inspecting service steps 2024-12-12 15:21:10 +01:00
sidekiq_helpers.rb FIX: send email to normalized email owner when hiding emails (#23524) 2023-09-12 11:06:35 +10:00
site_settings_helpers.rb
system_helpers.rb DEV: Deprecate external_system_avatars_enabled (#33436) 2025-07-04 16:02:04 +08:00
test_second_factor_action.rb
time_matcher.rb DEV: support nil values in the eq_time matcher (#22116) 2023-06-20 19:06:40 +04:00
topic_guardian_can_see_consistency_check.rb
ts_vector_matcher.rb
uploads_helpers.rb FIX: Use dualstack S3 endpoint for direct uploads (#29611) 2024-11-07 11:06:39 +10:00
webauthn_integration_helpers.rb DEV: Refactor webauthn to support passkeys (1/3) (#23586) 2023-10-03 14:59:28 -04:00