I've read about a folder structure discrepancy depending on how you install your Magento 2 which would cause the app/design themes to be moved into a vendor/magento/ folder.
Magento 2 - discrepancy between documentation and theme files structure on github
However my theme files seem to be located in pub/static/frontend/...
which has worked fine for me as far as copying the blank theme & then altering it, however i have come to remove the subscription form from the footer of the site & it seems to be ignoring my layout file.
I've found the Magento_Newsletter module using the template path hints & followed documentation to create a /pub/static/frontend/<vendor>/<template>/en_GB/Magento_Newsletter/layout/default.xml file within my theme containing:
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
<body>
<referenceBlock name="form.subscribe" remove="true" />
</body>
So my question is 2 fold:
1) am i wrong to be building a theme in the pub/static folder
2) have i placed the default.xml file in the wrong folder or am i removing the block in the wrong way?
Thanks for any input.
