New Theme Activation

[joejack22]

Hello guys,

I am testing the new theme structure. I noticed that each theme has a theme.xml file. Based on this, I have created a new theme called magento_test under app/design/frontend and added the theme.xml file.

Under the backend I cannot see this theme under system->configurations->design. Furthermore, if I go to content themes and click the plus symbol to add a theme I can now see my test theme. However, if I try to activate that theme I get a "this field is required error".

After looking at the source code I see that the value for my theme is blank.

Can someone point me in the right direction on how to add new themes to Magento 2 or tell me if this is a bug. Do I have to initialize it some how?

[joejack22]

Still hoping someone can help with this or tell me if this is a bug.

[0xpablo]

I think it's a bug. I tried creating a new theme and It only appeared after a clean installation of Magento.

[joejack22]

Thanks for confirming pablos93 that this is a bug! I have a clean install myself and I am not able to activate a new theme at all.

Maybe we can get this bug added to the que to get fixed soon?

[tanya-soroka]

Hello, I created a ticket for a team to review at this new issue you reported. We will update you once the team completes investigation. Thank you for reporting this!

[joejack22]

Thanks @tanya-soroka !

[verklov]

@joejack22, our team has fixed the issue that you reported. The fix has just been released in version dev71. Thank you for your input in Magento product development!

[christopher-silvey]

Thank you!