[heur][bcc][faked-from] [themes] Re: theme wishlist?

[Mark Fredrickson]

While I see value to having a "I want to port WordPress theme XYZ to Drupal"
list, my real wish as a designer is for more wireframes/pure layout themes.

Themes that just define some layouts and perhaps some useful functions in a
template.php file would be _way_ more useful to me as a designer than a
fully fleshed out theme with fancy-pants graphics and complex cascades.
Simplicity is what I want. (I guess this is why I keep returning to ArGeeBee
as a basis for themes).

So, what do I want specifically? I want a series of "themes" that build on
each other, each adding more complexity (note that this can be done by
nesting folders - themea/themea_extension/themea_extenions_extensions/etc).
This would allow me to grab the level of complexity that I want, but no
more. Here's an example:

root
- 2 column
-- fixed
--- blue color scheme
---- with images
--- green color scheme
-- variable

- 3 column
-- fixed
-- variable

- wacky hybrid 2/3 column design

...etc


Of course, I'm lazy and haven't bothered to set up my themes like this
either, but perhaps I can spur some community effort. :-)

- Mark Fredrickson




> From: David Reed <dreed10 at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: A list for theme developers <themes at drupal.org>
> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:13:18 -0500
> To: <themes at drupal.org>
> Subject: [heur][bcc][faked-from] [themes] Re: theme wishlist?
> 
> I meant to say THIS forum thread!  http://drupal.org/node/50428
> 
> On 3/9/06, David Reed <dreed10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I started this forum thread as a place to capture designs that people
>> would like to see ported to Drupal and also a place for theme developers to
>> "volunteer" for some of the porting work.  As you can see the thread has
>> gotten quite long.  At last count (and I think I'm a little behind) there
>> have been 25 designs suggested (including the Millio design discussed on the
>> dev list), with 14 designs having a volunteer, and at least 4 (maybe 5
>> completed).
>> 
>> My question to the community (and the maintainers of themes.drupal.org)
>> Should this list be moved to themes.drupal.org?  Is there value in
>> maintaining an ongoing wish list of desirable designs?  If we think there is
>> value but we don't think it belongs on themes.drupal.org then any
>> suggestions for a home?
>> 
>> 
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