[support] themes problem

[Mr Gibson... (Earnest Hern)]

I have tested many themes within just the core and within the core with
added mods. I tested about 25 themes and only one was ok. The others seem to
have some kind of problem.

I then read a message at drupal.org that the big problem was because of the
themes themself. That there should be one theme with different style sheets
instead.

>From what you have said and the other messages that I have read, I have
determined that I will not install any third party themes, but instead I
will wait until drupal addresses this theme problem.



----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com>
To: <support at drupal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [support] themes problem


> On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:26, Mr Gibson... (Earnest Hern) wrote:
> > I am using the latest snapshot drupal-cvs-4-7.tar.gz.
> >
> > I have noticed that drupal has a very bad selection of themes. Each one
> > seems to have some display problem. Most of the themes found at the
drupal
> > theme link do not fully work in the laster browsers. The forum table is
not
> > sized correctly or the hover colours are not correct or the input boxed
are
> > out of alignment. The only themes to work 100% are the ones packed with
> > drupal. The themes I am installing are for 4.7.0. not the cvs version.
> > Where can I get a good selection of fully workable themes. Drupal may
have
> > lots of options but if i cant get some good themes, it will be hard to
keep
> > members. I have tryed the theme garden but at that place is the same
themes
> > as the drupal site.
>
> Two things:
>
> 1) The themes projects are just as "unfiltered" as module projects.  Some
are
> great, some are good, some are broken steaming piles that haven't been
> updated in 2 years.  There's no built-in policing method for that
currently.
> So they're all "caveat downloador".
>
> 2) Are you using any contributed modules?  There are so many possible ways
to
> mix and match Drupal functionality that it's difficult if not impossible
to
> make a theme that will cover all of them.  Even core itself can be
configured
> in dozens of ways.  Not all themes support all features, and when you add
in
> browser stupidity (IE breaks in a thousand ways, Safari breaks in a
different
> 200 ways, Firefox breaks in its own 3-4 ways), generic theming is down
right
> impossible. :-)
>
> I agree that the after-market themes available for Drupal right now are
not
> that impressive, but hopefully you can see why.  In practice, I think it's
a
> good plan to build your own theme for your site, pulling in ideas and code
> from existing themes where possible.  (Eg, I tend to use the bluemarine
forum
> code as a starting point.)  Beware bugs in browsers.
>
> I'm not sure if that's much help, but hopefully it's worth something. :-)
>
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