[support] Trivial sub-theme: Renaming Bartik

[Chris Miller]

> From: "Roger" <arelem at bigpond.com>
> To: support at drupal.org
> Sent: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 3:46:49 PM
> Subject: [support] Trivial sub-theme: Renaming Bartik

> >> You also have to change all occurrences of Bartik in the files to
> >> your new name.
> > I don't think there are any such occurrences. Which "files" do you
> > mean?
> >

> go to drupal core themes/bartik/templates. Not /sites/all/themes.
> Copy the page.tpl.php and node.tpl.php to your
> /bartic-copy/sites/all/themes/
> Copy the /themes/bartik/template.php to your
> /bartic-copy/sites/all/themes/

> Then open template.php in your subtheme folder and change every
> instance
> of bartik_preprocess to your subthemename_preprocess.

> page.tpl.php is where drupal calls the theme bits and piecs from to
> fashion your page. You can manipulate this as you want but I suggest
> you
> don't.

> You can copy the /bartik/css folder over to your subtheme
> /sites/all/themes/yoursubtheme/ so you can override core theming
> using
> the correct terminology.

> Now the trap you will run into is:
> When you update Drupal core, it updates the core bartik theme which
> calls on a lot of core includes and this can break your
> bartiksubtheme.
> Been there, done that.

> Hope this helps
This is certainly the clearest explanation of how to create a sub-theme, but it confuses me. I'm lead to believe that it is not necessary to reproduce all of the contents of the base theme in the directory of the sub-theme; the point is to inherit all of this so you also inherit updates. If I read this correctly ( https://drupal.org/node/225125 ) I don't need to provide anything but at least one new stylesheet; everything is inherited from the base theme. 

Thanks for the help, 

Chris. 
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