Workflow and text for installing themes is confusing

Usability review

We reviewed this issue at 📌 Drupal Usability Meeting 2023-02-03 Fixed , that issue will have a link to the recording and list of participants.

We noted that the issue summary needs updating, so leave that tag, as the described behaviour of installing a theme and it remaining in the "Uninstalled themes" section is not accurate on 10.1.x. When a theme is installed its card does move to be in the "Installed themes" section.

Despite that, the group recommends changing the heading "Uninstalled themes" to "Available themes", and leaving the "Installed themes" heading as is.

The group felt that changing the installed heading to "Active themes" was not a good idea because a theme may be installed but it does not mean that it is in active use. For instance, a site may have a theme installed but that theme may not be used as the default nor admin theme, therefor we felt it was clearer the leave the heading "Installed themes" as is.

The group felt that introducing the terminology "Available themes" was more user friendly, because it indicates that these themes are available to be used while still conveying that those themes are not currently installed. The presence of the "Install" action buttons serves the purpose of conveying that an available theme can be installed on the site.

During tonights Drupal Dojo Austin @rocketeerbkw guided me through the patch workflow and helped solve a few uncertainties on my end due to the fact that the last patch is against 9.5.x and the new one against 10.1.x. . aside that i've only worked with issue forks so far and the current issue was a good chance giving the patch workflow a try. unsure if it would have been acceptable opening a merge request instead.

Anyway I've made the changes we've agreed on during the ux meeting against 10.1.x. . I've created a patch plus an interdiff against the patch in #36 📌 Workflow and text for installing themes is confusing Needs work .

One addition to the reasoning in #49 📌 Workflow and text for installing themes is confusing Needs work to avoid the terms active and inactive in the context of themes could be found #2888657: [meta] Less confusing and more consistent wording needed in module/theme add/install/update → . there is an effort to make the wording for adding and installing modules and themes consistent in drupal.

The only detail that might require some more discussion is something @rocketeerbkw spotted when i've sent him over the result of the changes.

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until ✨ [Meta] Appearance page is too long and confusing Active advances updating the description of the select list might solve the issue? Changing it from

Choose “Default theme” to always use the same theme as the rest of the site.

to something like:

Select an installed theme. By choosing “Default theme” you will always use the same theme as the rest of the site.

Can the issue summary be completed please also.