Essential for Moodle 2.9 and 3.0 updated.

Essential for Moodle 2.9 and 3.0 updated.

by Gareth J Barnard -
Number of replies: 4
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Hello,

I'm pleased to announce an update to the Essential theme for Moodle 2.9 and 3.0:

M2.9: https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversion.php?id=10576

M3.0: https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversion.php?id=10577

There are lots of changes in this release:

M2.9:

- FIX: Issue #614: Dashboard -> Site administration -> Appearance -> HTML settings overflow with fixed width set at normal.
- FIX: Issue #615: Block login on frontpage.
- FIX: Issue #616: TinyMCE font family setting overridden by theme.
- FIX: Issue #617: What is the 'message-index' layout?
- FIX: Issue #618: Gradebook links are displayed when reports cannot be viewed.  Thanks to Tony Butler for the patch #619.
- FIX: Issue #620: 'alternativethemedefaultbuttonbackgroundhovercolourX' setting name too long for 'name' attribute in 'config_plugins' table.
- FIX: Issue #621: Cloze question input box width when taking quiz but not preview.
- FIX: Editor colours.
- FIX: Duplicate line in 'Return to section....'.
- FIX: Input focus colour.
- FIX: TravisCI Code Checker complaints.
- FIX: MDL-52342 - Hiding section adds gaps to the activity chooser.
- FIX: MDL-52879 - Unable to delete last (only) question in a quiz.
- FIX: Question text width on 1200px+ resolutions when editing a quiz.
- FIX: Changes for Grid format issue #24.
- NEW: Issue #613: Section names on 'Return to section X'.  Grateful thanks to 'Mihai Bojonca, TCM International Institute, Inc.' for funding this enhancement.
- NEW: Inspector Scourer.
- NEW: 'Return to section....' feature setting.
- NEW: Features settings page to tidy things up a bit.

M3.0:

- FIX: Issue #614: Dashboard -> Site administration -> Appearance -> HTML settings overflow with fixed width set at normal.
- FIX: Issue #615: Block login on frontpage.
- FIX: Issue #616: TinyMCE font family setting overridden by theme.
- FIX: Issue #617: What is the 'message-index' layout?
- FIX: Issue #618: Gradebook links are displayed when reports cannot be viewed.  Thanks to Tony Butler for the patch #619.
- FIX: Issue #620: 'alternativethemedefaultbuttonbackgroundhovercolourX' setting name too long for 'name' attribute in 'config_plugins' table.
- FIX: Issue #621: Cloze question input box width when taking quiz but not preview.
- FIX: Editor colours.
- FIX: Duplicate line in 'Return to section....'.
- FIX: Input focus colour.
- FIX: TravisCI Code Checker complaints.
- FIX: MDL-52249 - Nested navigation dropdowns don't work on small screens - M3.0 only.
- FIX: MDL-52342 - Hiding section adds gaps to the activity chooser.
- FIX: MDL-52879 - Unable to delete last (only) question in a quiz.
- FIX: Question text width on 1200px+ resolutions when editing a quiz.
- FIX: Changes for Grid format issue #24.
- NEW: Issue #613: Section names on 'Return to section X'.  Grateful thanks to 'Mihai Bojonca, TCM International Institute, Inc.' for funding this enhancement.
- NEW: Inspector Scourer.
- NEW: 'Return to section....' feature setting.
- NEW: Features settings page to tidy things up a bit.

With grateful thanks to "Mihai Bojonca" of "TCM International Institute, Inc." for funding the "Section names on 'Return to section X'" enhancement.

Whilst adding new features I realised that their settings were not really 'General', so I have created a new 'Features' page and moved some existing settings in there too:

Essential Features settings page

This release also formally incorporates the new auto-complete course content search:


Cheers,

Gareth

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In reply to Gareth J Barnard

Re: Essential for Moodle 2.9 and 3.0 updated.

by Sebastian Wz -

Hi Gareth,

thanks for the work you're putting into this!

Is 3.0.0.5 still intended to have "release candidate"-status (in the plugin description), indicating it's not yet encouraged to be used on production sites?


Best regards

Sebastian

In reply to Gareth J Barnard

Re: Essential for Moodle 2.9 and 3.0 updated.

by Andreas Panagiotopoulos -

Thank you for this grate theme..!

One question for you:

How easy is to upload images to be used for the category icons?

Thank you!


In reply to Andreas Panagiotopoulos

Re: Essential for Moodle 2.9 and 3.0 updated.

by Gareth J Barnard -
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Hi Andreas,

It is not easy as that functionality does not yet exist.  However, it is a good idea: https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-theme_essential/issues/622.

Additionally, English is a difficult language, so I suspect you mean 'great' as you would find a 'grate' in a fire place or steam engine.

Kind regards,

Gareth