Could someone clarify a couple things for me?

From the Docs-
"All users who visit your app canvas pages will be logged into facebook. This field is asking, "must they log into your app?" This is Facebook's way of making sure the user has granted the app permission to learn information about the user."

I saw this on facebook. "In an effort to continue providing new ways to distribute your applications, we're making the Application Directory and app "about" pages available to people who are not logged in."

So this means if people are not logged in to facebook that the still can't USE the app (see the canvas page), though they can see the about page, yes?

AND:

I saw that you deleted the part about having to enable the theme, and i noticed in one of the issues that you said you don't have to enable, but do have to browse the themes listing to get the database to update, do i have that right, and shall i change the Doc to reflect that part?

I with drupal was using a better wiki for docs (Even drupal can do much better) with discussion pages for this stuff :(
Cheers!

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Dave Cohen commented

So this means if people are not logged in to facebook that the still can't USE the app (see the canvas page), though they can see the about page, yes?

That's how I read it. But knowing facebook, it could change tomorrow. (That's why I'd shy away from really trying to document anything that facebook already documents in their site or wiki. Everything about their API changes too quickly right now.)

i noticed in one of the issues that you said you don't have to enable, but do have to browse the themes listing to get the database to update

That's correct. Everywhere I've installed Drupal for Facebook, I have not had to enable the fb_fbml theme. I believe all the confusion in the issues is because Drupal doesn't scan the themes directory every time, but visiting that page will cause it to scan. There's something ugly about packaging fb_fbml in the modules directory and asking people to move it. However, I feel like packaging fb_fbml as its own theme would be even worse. The ideal would be if I could tell Drupal to use it with it sitting in modules/fb/themes/, but I don't think that's possible.

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Dave Cohen commented

So this means if people are not logged in to facebook that the still can't USE the app (see the canvas page), though they can see the about page, yes?

I told you they would change it:
http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=57

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frankcarey commented

hahahaha... yeah, right on the money. Good for them though. I'd rather have it this way, (i think). Have you been able to digest this yet? does it require an immediate change in the module?

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Letharion commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Since Drupal 5 is no longer supported, I'm taking the liberty to close all FB D5 support requests.