On 24-Oct-06, at 10:29 AM, Walt Daniels wrote:
It depends on what your objective is for the core theme. Themetastic is not easy to modify because of the color gradients, you can not just change a few colors in the CSS and go from blue to green. If the objective is to brand Drupal, Themetastic does a better job.
There needs to be at least one theme in core, i.e. highly supported, that is easy to modify. Bluemarine is easy to modify!
I agree with this. It's why we've been pushing to have Zen (probably with both the Deliciously Zen skin and the more plain "wireframe" skin) included in addition to Themetastic as the default theme. The fact that there have been at least 4-5 completely distinct themes built on Zen that change nothing but a CSS file is testament to the fact that it is powerful, flexible, and easy to modify. If there's resistance to putting in two "new" themes, then one of us could probably easily port something like Bluemarine to Zen and include it that way. -Angie