better != good.
Eum, so better = bad?
I think Ber might have meant only catching pages with the simple admin/* regexp. That indeed would be confusing since not all admin functions are caught by that and it would appear random to a user. It pretty clearly needs to be an all or nothing decision I would think.
So what doe you mean with an 'all or nothing decision'? What exactly does that mean in terms of what pages to theme differently? If I give you 2 months to think about this problem, will you be able to come up with a perfect solution? No, you won't. There is no perfect solution. Due to Drupal's highly dynamic nature, the distinction between user-mode and admin-mode will remain blurry, regardless of the regex you throw at this. That, and it is often a matter of preference. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/