[themes] Re: theme wishlist?

[David Reed]

Thanks Mark and Larry. I agree with both of you but I want to try to stay on
topic here to try to get some feedback on my core questions.

1. Is there value in maintaining a wish list?

2. If so, where should it be hosted?



On 3/9/06, Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
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