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Theme fallback to default doesn't work?

From Lars Kellogg-Stedman@21:1/183 to All on Wed Nov 1 23:00:00 2023

Howdy,

I'm trying to create a custom theme for Mystic. Looking at
"theme.ini" in the default them, I see:

[Fallback]

; Fall back to the "default" theme if there is a missing
; prompt, text, menu or script (true or false). Each theme
; can also fallback to specific themes using the options
; below.

Def_Prompt = true
Def_Text = true
Def_Menu = true
Def_Script = true

I thought this meant I could create a theme with only a few
files, and anything missing would be served from the content
in the default theme, so I have:

.
|-- menus
|-- scripts
|-- text
| |-- newuser1.asc
| `-- newuser.asc
`-- theme.ini

This is in the /mystic/themes/mytheme directory, next to /mystic/themes/default. When I configure mystic with theme
"mytheme", it seems to work at first when I log in as a new
user, but then fails with:

Error loading prelogin.mnu

...even though that exists in the default theme.

Is this a bug, or am I misunderstanding how fallback is
supposed to work?

Thanks!

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