[support] Sub-theme

[Chris Miller]

> From: "Pia Oliver" <pia at piasworld.com>
> To: support at drupal.org
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 10:02:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [support] Sub-theme

> Re: [support] Sub-theme
> Have you tried:

> 1. Make a copy of the "Bartik" folder from the core>themes file.
> 2. Put this folder in your sites>all>themes folder
> 3. rename this folder "bartik-cjm
> 4. open the "bartik.info file and add "stylesheets[all][] =
> css/local.css"
> 5. Rename bartik.info file to "bartik-cjm"
> 5a. Create a file in the css folder called "local.css" since it's
> here you will be over riding the Bartik original css files
> 6. check all the other files in the "bartik-cjm" folder for "Bartik"
> and replace this with "bartik-cjm"
> 7. Go to Admin/appearance and you will now see your subtheme
> "bartik-cjm"

> Pia

Hi Pia, 

No. I haven't done that for a very specific reason and that reason is that your recommended procedure does not give me a sub-theme; it gives me a custom theme which is a modified copy of Bartik rather than a sub-classed descendant. In this case, I am no longer inheriting from the Bartik base theme; I will have a copy which means that any changes to the base theme will be ignored and I don't really have a sub-theme; I have a modified new base-theme. I am lead to believe that what I have done is sufficient. ( https://drupal.org/node/225125 ), but clearly there is something that I don't understand, because my understanding is at variance with practice. 

Thanks for the help, 

Chris. 
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