[development] 5.0 Core Theme Update

Gerhard Killesreiter gerhard at killesreiter.de
Mon Sep 25 16:34:56 UTC 2006


Neil Drumm wrote:
> Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
>> Trae McCombs wrote:
>>> On 9/24/06, Boris Mann <boris at bryght.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>> I am staying on target by making sure that an "ugly" theme doesn't 
>>> make it
>>> to be the default theme for Drupal 5.0.
>>
>> Was it slated to be the default theme? I wouldn't want a default theme 
>> that doesn't show Druplicon on a prominent place.
> 
> I think that is okay to not have as a hard requirement. I think a better 
> statement on branding would be "It should look recognizable as Drupal, 
> once deployed on a bunch of new sites, for the sorts of people who 
> notice such things."

Sorry, but I disagree. Branding needs to be more obvious.

> (I've been able to recognize a few CMSes on arbitrary sites without 
> thinking about it for awhile now- I'm not sure if this is a good thing 
> or if I should close the laptop and go outside.)

Drinking some strange Belgian beers might help too. :p

Cheers,
	Gerhard



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