Disabling search also disables the theme switcher

[provinzkraut]

navbar_persistent is set to "navbar_persistent": ["search-button"] by default. If you try to remove the search by setting it to "navbar_persistent": [], the theme switcher also gets removed.

Workaround is to set it to "navbar_persistent": ["theme-switcher"] instead.

[12rambau]

What you're describing is the intended behaviour. On small screen only the search-button remains in the navbar, the others (theme-swithcer and link-icons) are moved to the primary sidebar (left) that can be activated with the "menu" button.

The workaround you propose will work just fine but then I don't really get what's the purpose of the issue. Would you like us to change the behaviour ?

[provinzkraut]

On small screen only the search-button remains in the navbar, the others (theme-swithcer and link-icons) are moved to the primary sidebar (left) that can be activated with the "menu" button.

This does not seem to explain why removing the search button also removes the theme switcher?
I get why they are not being displayed on small screens, but not why this side effect occurs.
This behaviour exists regardless of screen size

The workaround you propose will work just fine but then I don't really get what's the purpose of the issue. Would you like us to change the behaviour ?

The purpose of this issue was that I assumed this to be a bug, since it's a (seemingly random) side effect. If this is intended this issue can be closed, but maybe it would be good to add some explanation of this in the docs, since it's not immediately obvious (as made evident by me thinking it's a bug 🙃)

[12rambau]

sorry I though it was nly disapearing in the small screen display my bad.

Let me check we made some decoration on these 2 buttons recently in #1146 maybe that's related

[12rambau]

I tried in our documentation to apply the same modification:

"navbar_persistent": []

and it seems to work as expected: The theme switcher is still there in big screen:

Could you confirm it's what you tried ?

[provinzkraut]

Could you confirm it's what you tried ?

Yes, that's exactly what I did and I can still reproduce this.

I'm on 0.13.1 in case that's relevant.

[12rambau]

could you share the repository branch where you did this ? As I don't manage to reproduce it on any of my websites, I think something else is different from your side

[12rambau]

I'll close this as we cannot reproduce it from our side. PLease send us some feedback if the bug persist.