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[Richard Graham <richie.g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Not sure about this.
> Why have you change themes and not set a parameter in the song settings.
> We have 20+ themes and would need to change all of theme.
> Not unhappy with the idea just the implementation.
> 
> Well done with the theme changes though! but you missed theme.json!

I had a thought about this when I embarked upon my little project, and I decided to put it as a setting in a theme rather than as a global setting mostly due to the way I use (and encourage others around me to use) OpenLP. For myself, I use OLP in a variety of different places as I often run the AV for events as well as in my home church(es). While my home church has the end character in place, as does the main church in our circuit (whom we took the idea from!), other churches I go do do not, nor would I put it in place at a conference. 

Now, I realise this is probably a me-specific thing that I do this, but as I can often switch between events rapidly, it is much easier to change the default theme than to go into the settings to change something - in my mind, the 'settings' page - of any program - is there to configure when you initially set up an application, and is subsequently mostly ignored.  For a service or event, I will generally have two themes in use, one for song words and one for scripture (the latter I realise requires changing in the 'settings'!), and don't generally have alternate themes for different songs; when participating in sung worship as a 'mere' (for want of a better word!) worshipper, I find it very distracting if one song on the screen looks different to the next.

I do, however, see your point in it being a PITA to have to change all your themes to match, although there are two ways I could see your comment. I first saw it as a complaint that all the themes would have to be updated to contain the new element (which I will come to!) but second is the one that if you do use several different themes during a service (or even just have one theme per service but alter them depending on what service you're at) then you make a very good point there.

The first point has been thought of, and I made sure to maintain support for 'classic' themes that don't have that setting as part of their XML.  (Admittedly, initially this was more accident than design by working on the themes I had already...!) I will also put my hands up and admit to missing the JSON - I didn't know the themes had that as well as the XML!
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