Hi Tobias, I think the Chameleon theme is valuable for people who want to understand how "Real Drupal Theming" works. This is an important skill for people who want to either make new engines or make non-HTML themes. I think there are still a lot of people who choose it over PHPTemplate based themes for performance reasons as well (I know Goba does). So it seems to have its place in core. cheers, Robert Tobias Maier wrote:
Hello,
I have one question. Why do we ship a plain PHP theme in core? Wouldn't it be good for consistency if all themes would be a phptemplate theme? and wouldn't it be easier to maintain a phptemplate theme as a plain PHP theme? Is there any reason why chameleon is plain PHP?
I think it may confuse people that we ship a theme where the code is not similar compared with all other core themes.
cu Tobi
btw. I converted the chameleon theme to phptemplate: see http://drupal.org/node/41005