Adrian Rossouw wrote:
proliferation of simple, elegant fixed width themes 'proliferation' is a bit strong. A handful of themes have been ported over from blog tools, only the fact that we had so few themes before (which had relatively few graphics and weren't quite as pretty) makes it seem like 'proliferation'.
But Drupal isn't fundamentally for blogs, it's for community sites (although it can be adapted).
with utterly broken admin sections Which means that they were badly ported to Drupal, or badly constructed - not usually for lack of skill but because it is hard to theme a large piece of software like Drupal consistently.
It seems to me that people are suggesting fitting Drupal around a certain type of theme, rather than having the themes fit to Drupal as it should be.
I would like to see what Chris has put together Indeed, but I'm betting it will introduce a truck load of UI problems and increase admin/editor confusion. Also it will allow people to create very pretty front ends whilst ignoring the admin/editing UI, inevitably that will begin to suffer.
There are things it be good to (optionally) have happen on admin, editing and for that matter any page with wide content - blocks with irrelevant content out of the way, irrelevant menu options collapsing - anything which allows people to focus on the task they are doing. What we need IMNSHO are adaptable themes, not a separate admin theme. -- adrinux (aka Adrian Simmons) <http://adrinux.perlucida.com> e-mail <mailto:adrinux@gmail.com> AOL/Yahoo IM: perlucida, Microsoft: adrian@perlucida.com