Did you clear cache (in admin settings performance)? Its certainly needed when you create or change .info files.
If subtheming a core theme would be the problem (like the first answer says) you could just copy garland to sites/all/themes and call it garlandcopy and replace garland with garlandcopy for the .info and template.php files. Also check out how Minelli is set u, its a core subtheme of garland.
2009/2/21, Michael Anderson usufruct@gmail.com:
I'm hoping to get some help with what should be an easy question: how do I inherit a core theme?
After looking at the docs it seemed that by creating a .info file and setting the base theme I would have inheritance set up. I tried that with this:
name = development - testing theme based on Garland core = 6.x base theme = garland
After activating this theme I lost all styles. The base theme directive seems to do nothing. My theme is in sites/all/themes/garland-dev; garland is in themes/garland. Please advise.
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