I noticed that when using the printer friendly module, one must put the print.node-type.tpl.php file into the /zen folder; putting it in the subtheme folder doesn't allows the module to see it. Perhaps you could say this is a problem of the print module, but I'm curious if other modules look into the theme directory and no farther. I imagine it's usually ok, and has one or two work arounds. Not sure how to proceed or if anyone else had this problem.

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johnalbin
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Unfortunately, in Drupal 5, sub-theme's are only supposed to have a style.css sheetsheet and no more. We’ve done some tricks to allow sub-themes to have more meat.

The main unresolved issue is Drupal 5’s path_to_theme() function which always returns a path to the base Zen theme. In Drupal 6 that function returns the path to the sub-theme.

Zen provides a replacement for path_to_theme() called path_to_subtheme()

So modules could use something like this:

$path = function_exists('path_to_subtheme') ? path_to_subtheme() : path_to_theme();

I’ll admit that its not a very good solution.

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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

I'm marking this “won't fix”. But really this is “can't fix”.

Unless someone else can think of a better solution?