Id like to pull this discussion out of the general usability improvement, because I feel this needs LOT of thought before it even close to ready. for me the admin theme has a few requirements: * it must be able to disable when someone feels he/she is not helped with it. * it must be overridable in a theme * it must be profilable (a forum site has a different concept of what pages are admin then a personal blog) Some ideas I came up with to tackle this admin theme issue are: * tackle this in the menu. Allow a flag/setting per menu entry 'IS_ADMIN' and 'ADMIN_SUGGESTED'. * tackle this in a blocks/sections alike interface, where sets of regexps define what pages are admin and what pages not. * tackle this in a separate admin-theme UI, where one can select a pre-defined profile (blog, forum site etc) then the profile will select for you what pages are admin and what not. I personally dislike the last item. it is not flexible enough, yet I still mention it, because it might be a starter for better ideas? Ber