Thanks Mark and Larry. I agree with both of you but I want to try to
stay on topic here to try to get some feedback on my core questions.<br>
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1. Is there value in maintaining a wish list?<br>
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2. If so, where should it be hosted?<br>
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Larry Garfield</b> <<a href="mailto:larry@garfieldtech.com">larry@garfieldtech.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Agreed. Starting-point themes are much more useful to<br>developers/consultants/designers than canned themes (which are more<br>appropriate for end-user-blogger-types).<br><br>For instance, a skeleton theme that does this and almost nothing else
<br>would be awesome:<br><br><a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail">http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail</a><br><br>-- Larry Garfield<br><br>On Thu, March 9, 2006 11:29 am, Mark Fredrickson said:<br>
> While I see value to having a "I want to port WordPress theme XYZ to<br>> Drupal"<br>> list, my real wish as a designer is for more wireframes/pure layout<br>> themes.<br>><br>> Themes that just define some layouts and perhaps some useful functions in
<br>> a<br>> template.php file would be _way_ more useful to me as a designer than a<br>> fully fleshed out theme with fancy-pants graphics and complex cascades.<br>> Simplicity is what I want. (I guess this is why I keep returning to
<br>> ArGeeBee<br>> as a basis for themes).<br>><br>> So, what do I want specifically? I want a series of "themes" that build on<br>> each other, each adding more complexity (note that this can be done by
<br>> nesting folders -<br>> themea/themea_extension/themea_extenions_extensions/etc).<br>> This would allow me to grab the level of complexity that I want, but no<br>> more. Here's an example:<br>><br>> root
<br>> - 2 column<br>> -- fixed<br>> --- blue color scheme<br>> ---- with images<br>> --- green color scheme<br>> -- variable<br>><br>> - 3 column<br>> -- fixed<br>> -- variable<br>><br>> - wacky hybrid 2/3 column design
<br>><br>> ...etc<br>><br>><br>> Of course, I'm lazy and haven't bothered to set up my themes like this<br>> either, but perhaps I can spur some community effort. :-)<br>><br>> - Mark Fredrickson<br>
><br>><br>><br>><br>>> From: David Reed <<a href="mailto:dreed10@gmail.com">dreed10@gmail.com</a>><br>>> Reply-To: A list for theme developers <<a href="mailto:themes@drupal.org">themes@drupal.org
</a>><br>>> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:13:18 -0500<br>>> To: <<a href="mailto:themes@drupal.org">themes@drupal.org</a>><br>>> Subject: [heur][bcc][faked-from] [themes] Re: theme wishlist?<br>>>
<br>>> I meant to say THIS forum thread! <a href="http://drupal.org/node/50428">http://drupal.org/node/50428</a><br>>><br>>> On 3/9/06, David Reed <<a href="mailto:dreed10@gmail.com">dreed10@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>>>><br>>>> I started this forum thread as a place to capture designs that people<br>>>> would like to see ported to Drupal and also a place for theme<br>>>> developers to
<br>>>> "volunteer" for some of the porting work. As you can see the thread<br>>>> has<br>>>> gotten quite long. At last count (and I think I'm a little behind)<br>>>> there
<br>>>> have been 25 designs suggested (including the Millio design discussed<br>>>> on the<br>>>> dev list), with 14 designs having a volunteer, and at least 4 (maybe 5<br>>>> completed).
<br>>>><br>>>> My question to the community (and the maintainers of <a href="http://themes.drupal.org">themes.drupal.org</a>)<br>>>> Should this list be moved to <a href="http://themes.drupal.org">
themes.drupal.org</a>? Is there value in<br>>>> maintaining an ongoing wish list of desirable designs? If we think<br>>>> there is<br>>>> value but we don't think it belongs on <a href="http://themes.drupal.org">
themes.drupal.org</a> then any<br>>>> suggestions for a home?<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>themes mailing list<br><a href="mailto:themes@drupal.org">themes@drupal.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/themes">
http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/themes</a><br></blockquote></div><br>