cPanel Glass Theme
The (new) cPanel Glass is a 0 out of 10...
I can't believe someone thought it was a good idea to remove the style sheet and icons and call that a theme. Hilarious....
Maybe when Glass v2.0 is released, whoever is getting paid to design the theme can browse over Themeforest for some inspiration and ideas.
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'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 Blog0 -
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 ?? 0 -
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. 0 -
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.0 -
This is just run as the root user from SSH. Did you get an error when you tried this? 0 -
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. 0 -
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.0 -
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.0 -
Thank you very much, it worked beautifully! 0 -
Awesome - glad to hear it! 0 -
-5 out of 10. I can't even express how disappointed I am in this.... AND it was made the default on all my cPanel installs.... So not only is it horrible, I now have to login into every WHM and update it back to the normal one. Someone took bring my kid to work day too seriously. 0 -
I also don't like this theme and need to set the default theme as the previous paper lantern theme :D 0 -
I haven't found anyone that actually likes that new theme. Not sure what's going on at cPanel nowadays... 0 -
Hi @cPRex !, Doing what says in the article How to remove the "Switch to Glass" banner from the cPanel interface also prevents the cPanel Glass notice from appearing on Reseller's newly created accounts? Thanks! Ignacio 0 -
@imorandin - if you perform the steps under the "Removal for new accounts" then yes :D 0 -
I just have to add my two cents, absolutely terrible new theme. I think clean would be more like remove the text and just have super cool icons. I mean you can get around so much faster with icons and without the text you would have more real estate for a cleaner look. If thats what you are looking for, but sometimes just minor updates to an existing successful theme are all that is needed. This theme I'm afraid is an abomination. 0 -
One more user here who thinks that the template without icons it's ugly and difficult to use. Would be more easy to use (please, don't do it) without text than without icons. In first place, I thought that the page was not fully loaded. I like the global aesthetic, but please make and option to have icons with this style. Thanks! 0 -
Hello clopezi! We greatly appreciate your feedback. If you have any ideas or suggestions for improving the Glass theme, please submit a feature request using the "Submit a Feature Request" link in my signature below. In. the meantime, you should be able to change the theme for users using the following command: /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/modify_accounts --theme=paper_lantern --all-users --style=basic0 -
Hello clopezi! We greatly appreciate your feedback. If you have any ideas or suggestions for improving the Glass theme, please submit a feature request using the "Submit a Feature Request" link in my signature below. In. the meantime, you should be able to change the theme for users using the following command:
/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/modify_accounts --theme=paper_lantern --all-users --style=basic
Thanks for the tip, @cPJustinD My main feedback, as many others users, it's make a Glass version with icons. I don't doubt that many people like it without icons, but I'm confident that most users would like a lot more with icons. Thank you!0 -
I've already given feedback via the official channels but just to say that without icons you have to work so hard to find what you're looking for so hopefully this can be tweaked with icons then it'll likely be decent improvement. I was ignoring things a little but now it's live on all new cPanel accounts I felt the need to further feedback. 0 -
Without a doubt, the worst design decision cPanel has made in the past 10 years. Honestly, my first impression was "This must be an April Fools Joke!". Hahaa. And then it dawned on me, that someone was legitimately paid USD to simply remove the icons and call it a new theme. What the he%$ And to add insult to injury, someone on the cPanel staff made the conscious decision to not include the option to enable / disable "the theme upgrade" on the after major update WHM login splash screen as they do with most major client-facing changes or settings. There is a lesson to be learned here, cPanel staff. But are you listening? Recommended reading: 0 -
Friendly reminder - we love feedback, but let's keep it respectful and about the product itself. 0 -
Friendly reminder - we love feedback, but let's keep it respectful and about the product itself.
Of course, ever, but this user has a very good point of view:someone on the cPanel staff made the conscious decision to not include the option to enable / disable "the theme upgrade" on the after major update WHM login splash screen as they do with most major client-facing changes or settings.
This is very very unrespectful with the users. Remember that cPanel it's not a free software where the user has to accept the decisions or move on, this is paid software, and this kind of decision are very hard to accept. An option to enable or disable the new template after update it's the right way to go, almost as user I see that way. King regards,0 -
Why not just make your own Basic Style paper_lantern, set it as default, and disable "Change style" feature set ? Just copy the Basic, rename it to your hosting name, and then you wont get into these trouble, as long as you disable the "Change style" option, which hides the new banner that invites clients to try Glass as well. 0 -
Hello clopezi! We greatly appreciate your feedback. If you have any ideas or suggestions for improving the Glass theme, please submit a feature request using the "Submit a Feature Request" link in my signature below.
How to remove the "Switch to Glass" banner from the cPanel interface), to remove the message on existing accounts, its not working, tried in a few different servers. King regards,0 -
@clopezi - we're still working on changes to the features site that will provide a MUCH better experience. However, adding icons isn't something that will happen with Glass. We have an additional new theme that we plan to release that offers an easier-to-navigate experience. 0 -
The thing is that iconless themes ARE a good option for people who prefer dense displays. It can mean less scrolling and easier click-throughs for people who use it a lot and just want to be able to click on the option they want without lots of scrolling. The problem with Glass is that they removed the icons, but left large margins on everything so that it's not really saving any space. The fact that they removed the icons, but still use up enough space for buttons to fit a good sized icon means that the theme does not really have a useful niche. 0 -
Alternating background shades on the different sections; larger contrast in font sizes for section headings; Icons (allow them to be enabled or disabled by the end user, if you like). What we have now could literally be more functional if it were 3-4 columns of text with Bolded section heads -- it would take up less space and be easier to search through by eye. If you want to get advanced, have a search at the top that highlights related options sort of like how Apple does with System Prefs or Adobe with their Help menus. This really scares me as to the leadership and management of CPanel/WHM. Steve Jobs would nuke it from orbit. 0 -
It's awful. Icons are useful. I find it incredibly difficult to find anything in cPanel now and even hard to explain to a client how they do something. 0 -
You can use this API call to do that work: whmapi1 set_default type='default' name='basic'0
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