cPanel Glass Theme

[visiba]

I want to hide the 'Switch to Glass' option for existing customers.

You can disable "Change Style" in WHM > Feature Manager for your feature list(s). That's the only way I see now unfortunately to disable this unfinished theme.

 

[Damian]

Thanks Visiba, that achieved the result I wanted for now. My clients never change the theme generally, but this prompt raised questions and some tried it.

This is actually a good to option to leave permanently. Will make support easier too as we don't have to cater for alternate displays in the theme.

Thanks!

 

[Hedloff]

We do have an API to handle this:

whmapi1 set_default type='default' name='base'

Save default cPanel style · cPanel & WHM Developer Portal

This function sets the default cPanel style.

api.docs.cpanel.net

"base" is the modern Paper Lantern we all know and love :D

Seems like "base" is now "basic", so your docs needs to be updated.

# whmapi1 set_default type='default' name='base'
---
metadata:
  command: set_default
  reason: The 'base' style does not exist.
  result: 0
  version: 1

:~# whmapi1 set_default type='default' name='basic'
---
metadata:
  command: set_default
  reason: OK
  result: 1
  version: 1

 

[cPRex]

@Hedloff - oh, nice catch! I've sent the docs update request now :D

 

[stormy]

This is appalling. At first I thought it was broken, but no. You removed all the icons that help navigate the functions and are user friendly. Just to get a list of links? It feels like we're back in 1999!

I don't get it. Why do you make changes to our defaults? Why do you insist on advertising this so-called theme to our customers? This is very weird.

 

[Metro2]

I really wish we could get rid of the " Introducing our new style, Glass. A clean, elegant take on our classic design. Try it out. Let us know what you think. " notice in user cPanels globally without disabling the "Change Style" feature.

Could cPanel please provide a way to dismiss the message on all accounts without having to log into each one?

 

[cPRex]

At this time I don't have a global method available. I've reached out to the User Experience team to see if they have any other options that I'm not aware of, or if this is something they plan to add. I'll reply back once I know for sure.

 

[stormy]

I need to remove that even if it means hacking the cPanel files to delete it, and do it again on every update. Plus, my customers don't speak English so it doesn't make any sense...

EDIT: the file that needs to be modified is:
/usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/paper_lantern/home/index.tt

A simple

style="display:none;"

in the right place will cure the problem until the next cPanel update...

 

[cPRex]

I spoke with the user experience team and this one-line will work to remove that for existing accounts:

echo '{"personalization":{"xmainNewStyleBannerDismissed":"1"}}' | uapi --user=username --input=json --output=json Personalization set

For new domains created in the future, you can do the following to permanently set this up:

mkdir -pv /root/cpanel3-skel/.cpanel/nvdata/
echo -n "1" > /root/cpanel3-skel/.cpanel/nvdata/xmainNewStyleBannerDismissed

and that will keep that banner from being present in new accounts.

 

[cPRex]

I've created the following article here if you'd like to have this information all in one place for reference:

How to remove the "Switch to Glass" banner from the cPanel interface

Introduction In cPanel 96 we added the new Glass style to Paper Lantern. When users access their cPanel accounts they are presented with a banner asking if they want to try this, which has the fol...

support.cpanel.net

 

[Matt.R]

HATE this new style (emphasis on hate there... did you notice..)

Not quite sure how it can be called a "style" as it has no style.

Sorry but it's just awful.

IMPORTANTLY: 'Retro' style is being removed during this change over. Why? It might be a little "old fashioned" but an enormous number of our clients use that style and deliberatly switch to it. Think it should stay.

 

[ffeingol]

'Retro' style is being removed during this change over. Why?

Not really a full answer, but here is cPanel blog post about it The Deprecation Of Retro | cPanel Blog

 

[Matt.R]

Ah... thank you, much appreciated.

Doesn't detract from the intention that the Glass style will be the default. Utter bonkers.

And why call it "Glass" ? Any theme I've seen that has 'glass' in it's description tends to have transparent elements or "glass like" icons. This is just... (Matt shrugs) ... just text ??

 

[UserJohnT]

About the removal of the retro design.

It was the most intuitive and straightforward interface for some, where we can find exactly what
we looking for quickly and effectively without the stupid "always modern always in" plague,
and with option to choose classic for those, who liked it more.
I work in cPanel, i don't play there.

To this day, some of us have choice, now you removing it.

Instead of focusing on really important aspects of cPanel features, like multi user acess
and WHM global spam filters with adding numbering to spam filter in spam logs (so we finally know
which filter discarding what), you focusing on new design and removing old one, which was clear
and intuitive.

Let us work and stop intrude what we content with.
Don't touch our retro or let us use it with existing features.

 

[Metro2]

I spoke with the user experience team and this one-line will work to remove that for existing accounts:

echo '{"personalization":{"xmainNewStyleBannerDismissed":"1"}}' | uapi --user=username --input=json --output=json Personalization set

Thank you. Where exactly does that command need to be run? Doesn't work from SSH.

 

[cPRex]

This is just run as the root user from SSH. Did you get an error when you tried this?

 

[cPRex]

Retro was always meant to be a temporary solution to bridge over users that were used to the older themes. At this point, with some additional new things we have planned for the future, it's just not practical to maintain it.

 

[stormy]

This is just run as the root user from SSH. Did you get an error when you tried this?

Of course, because "You do not have a user named “username”."

Doesn't this need to loop through all the users? I've seen similar code in the forum in the past, something like taking usernames from /var/cpanel/users. I'm not a coder though.

It would be great if you could provide the code including the loop so it runs on all existin users.

 

[cPRex]

Yes, you would need to update the "username" portion of the command.

There's a lot of examples of API calls looping through all the users on the machine throughout the forums. I usually use something like this to pull a master username list:

cat /etc/trueuserdomains | awk {'print $2'}

so you could use something like this for the whole command:

for i in `cat /etc/trueuserdomains | awk {'print $2'}`; do echo '{"personalization":{"xmainNewStyleBannerDismissed":"1"}}' | uapi --user=$i --input=json --output=json Personalization set; done

That will loop through all the users and set the value to "1" properly in that file without any extraneous carriage returns or extra data.

 

[stormy]

Thank you very much, it worked beautifully!