Themes usability and maintenance (Was: [drupal-devel] Integrating Drupal with phpBB)

> Wouldn't it be just as much work to build those features that you
> want into drupal core and forum.module. the 4.3 forum.module is
> much more css friendly so interesting designs are possible. it is
> too bad we ship with one, straightforward design.

Which brings another thought back to the front - there were discussions
whether to (get rid of all the themes and?) bring out only one theme
(XTemplate?) with different CSS styling to suit different needs. With
everything being very CSS friendly nowadays, isn't it something that
should be considered?

I believe that this would have more pros than cons:

cons:
* Possibly killing imagination in creating themes
* more...?

pros:
* Easier to maintain
* Quicker to come up with "new designs"
* Need only to know a bit of CSS to come up with a great theme
* Standardizing on set technologies for core themes (i.e. only
XHTML/CSS/WHATEVER as opposed to a lot of diverging techs)
* Easier to set up a showcase for Drupal's theming capabilities
* more...?

Thoughts about this?

Regards,

Kobus

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