Hi Trae,
Sorry for not linking the previous thread "Patches":
http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2006-07/msg00115.html

tx read below please...

Trae McCombs wrote:
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> Making a pretty design (I prefer inkscape btw. ;)  Is an easy thing to
> do.  Having a sane base that all themers can use to build thier theme
> is what we should be solving.  I worked for a while on this with Ted
> (m3avrck) and Robin (mozillaman)
> and we didn't get very far.

What I would like is to avoid discussion "implementation" and "sane
bases" and "building on". All that can come later, and will come, and
will be good. My agenda is moving focus of discussion to what is missing
from core. *I think* that a "good looking" theme is missing, something
that puts Drupal's on a "sexiness" par with Joomla.

You are putting the cart before the horse. Noone can build a pretty theme, it's too difficult, unless you are Steven Wittens (he bud!) who is a PHP Gawd along with his massive knowledge of the drupal theming systems. Someone like myself, who knows CSS and can do graphics is at a disadvantage. That is why we need the base theme so we can all simply start hanging pretty stuff on skeletons.

But here, you have provided a candidate "inkscape", that is what I'd
like to see. I don't find this theme in the downloads - can you provide
a screenshot?