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!

From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of adrian rossouw
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:15 AM
To: development@drupal.org
Subject: Re: [development] Default core theme

On 24 Oct 2006, at 2:17 PM, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

Indeed, this theme looks nice. But you are speaking about *replacing*, which I imply means replacing bluemarine. Now bluemarine is the default admin theme. Is themetastic a solid contender to be an admin theme too? What is going to be the default admin theme, once bluemarine is replaced?

I believe themetastic should be the admin theme too.

I believe by replacing 'bluemarine' , we mean completely removing it from the distribution and sticking it in contrib.

It's about time for that.