Solved Theme import not importing anything

ammo999

I have saved a theme with my icons
I have use current icon set ticked

I export this theme in a cloud storage.
When I load this theme in another pc, It does nothing at all.
No colour changes, no icons, nothing and no errors

Looking at the zip file, the icons are in there along with other files.

current version

Vivaldi	6.5.3206.63 (Stable channel) (64-bit) 
Revision	5c2593a2fee32e8ecaa6e8fc0fa3aae84c8d3413
OS	Windows 11 Version 23H2 (Build 22631.3155)
JavaScript	V8 12.0.267.19
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Command Line	"C:\Users\amjad\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe" --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --save-page-as-mhtml
Executable Path	C:\Users\amjad\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe
Profile Path	C:\Users\amjad\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default
Active Variations	5e3a236d-4113a79e

anyone else have this issue? or how to fix please

nomadic

@ammo999 The issue seems to be the Window Panel icon settings.json definition.

      ...
      "PanelTasks": "PanelTasks.png",
      "PanelWindow": "chrome://vivaldi-data/thumbnail/23YMIADT7NPYSHAAGKG7NMDCIK6X6JEA.png"
   },
   "colorAccentBg": "#00b3ff",
   ...

After removing that line, the theme installed properly.

Do you have any idea how the PanelWindow icon got set to that? That sort of internal URI is what you would see for a bookmark thumbnail on the Speed Dial.

Pathduck

@ammo999 Please share a link to your theme file.

jnicholson95

Mine are working fine, I agree with @Pathduck could you post a link to the file?

DoctorG

I saw not-importing only if theme.zip resided in Vivaldi profile folder, then Vivaldi denied to import.
Means location would be C:\Users\MYNAME\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\mythemes\theme.zip or C:\Users\MYNAME\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\theme.zip

ammo999

here is a link to the theme file. there are not many changes, mostly the icons

https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZabDnZcwSeI7t1L8SAxW3EdPfI804gpa37

let me know if this doesnt work

nomadic

@ammo999 The issue seems to be the Window Panel icon settings.json definition.

      ...
      "PanelTasks": "PanelTasks.png",
      "PanelWindow": "chrome://vivaldi-data/thumbnail/23YMIADT7NPYSHAAGKG7NMDCIK6X6JEA.png"
   },
   "colorAccentBg": "#00b3ff",
   ...

After removing that line, the theme installed properly.

Do you have any idea how the PanelWindow icon got set to that? That sort of internal URI is what you would see for a bookmark thumbnail on the Speed Dial.

ammo999

@nomadic Hi. thanks for the quick response.
I have no idea. I am new to vivaldi, so only making changes via the settings panel.

i also found it odd that it had two .json files, both the same

i have tried the fix, and it now works.

thanks for your help

Pathduck

@ammo999 I didn't even know it was possible to make a zip file with two identically named files
Apparently it is, but you'd need to hack or use some bad tool:
https://superuser.com/questions/1013484/how-can-it-be-that-a-zip-file-contains-multiple-files-with-the-same-name-in-the

EDIT: Apparently this is possible with 7Zip - nice to know

$ 7z a 2024-02-21.zip settings.json
$ 7z rn 2024-02-21.zip settings.json settings_.json
$ 7z a 2024-02-21.zip settings.json
$ 7z rn 2024-02-21.zip settings_.json settings.json
$ 7z l 2024-02-21.zip settings.json

   Date      Time    Attr         Size   Compressed  Name
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------  ------------------------
2024-02-22 21:41:31 ....A         1193          487  settings.json
2024-02-22 21:41:31 ....A         1193          487  settings.json
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------  ------------------------
2024-02-22 21:41:31               2386          974  2 files

When editing a theme for your own, it's best practice to make a copy - select the theme you want to edit, then click New Theme and rename/edit the copy instead.

When using a theme from Vivaldi Themes and saving, it keeps the original id and url for the shared theme - I don't know why it does this but editing a copy avoids this.