[themes] Re: theme wishlist?

[Larry Garfield]

Agreed.  Starting-point themes are much more useful to
developers/consultants/designers than canned themes (which are more
appropriate for end-user-blogger-types).

For instance, a skeleton theme that does this and almost nothing else
would be awesome:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail

-- Larry Garfield

On Thu, March 9, 2006 11:29 am, Mark Fredrickson said:
> 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?