03 October 2024, 1:47

Hello community,

after the upgrade from Mahara 22.10 to 24.04.4 , the Mahara Logo in the header has disappeared. There is however, the backgound div that you can click on, but there is no logo anymore. Before the Mahara upgrade, the os has been upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 24.04 and the logo was still there, white on transparent.

If I click on the empty div however and the page has loaded, the logo shows in black for a short time (much less than a second) and disappears again. The logo now is black on transparent, before the upgrade, it was white on transparent. The background is blueish green, so even the black logo would be visible.

We do not have a custom theme, skin or logo. There is nothing in the log.

In the institution configuration, the selected theme is "Configurable Theme". If I switch to the "Ocean" theme, the logo appears in white. If I switch back to "Configurable Theme", the logo gets black and disappears again. I would very much like to go for the configurable theme, because this is a lot more like the university ci.

Mahara 24.04.4 with PHP8.4 and postgresql 16,
experimental changeover to PHP8.3 did not change any behaviour.

Any information else to provide?
Any idea someone?
Is this "configurable theme" still available in a mahara fresh install?

03 October 2024, 2:43

If you can get to the backend, try updating
htdocs/theme/raw/themeconfig.php
raw being the base theme

From

$theme->allowdarkmode = true;

to
$theme->allowdarkmode = false;

This worked for me

Jackie

04 October 2024, 21:02

Hello Jackie,

thank you for your reply. Sadly, this didn't fix our problem. Maybe because our base theme is "ocean".  I also tried to apply the "$theme->allowdarkmode = false" entry to the "ocean" theme, but that didn't do the job either.

04 October 2024, 8:31

Hi Werner,

A fix for this issue is available and will be included in the next maintenance release.

Thank you

Kristina

07 October 2024, 19:28

Hello Kristina,

some minutes ago, I installed Mahara 24.04.5, mainly for the security fixes. I reset the institution theme to the "configurable" one but I must report the Mahara logo is there again at least, but in black. Should V24.04.5 be the maintenance release to fix it or has it only been pushed out quickly to fix the security issues?

We decided to stay with the configurable theme for now as it is not critical but it would be nice to get the white logo back.

08 October 2024, 12:40

Hello Werner,

We did have a fix in place but that didn't fully take your scenario into account of the Mahara logo changing colour automatically. We made a patch that is going to go into today's add-on release, Mahara 24.04.6.

Thank you for having tested so quickly and provided your feedback.

Kristina