Re: [G3/Patch] More flexibility with themes

> Romain LE DISEZ wrote:
>> My patch was a way to provide inheritance capabilities for the  
>> themes.
>> But the problem with it is that the themes can only inherit of
>> "default". Inheritance can be generalized by adding a variable to
>> theme.info :
>>    parent = <theme name>
>>
>> But I'm not sure you are interested with that, so I will not waste  
>> time
>> on it unless you ask me. My second patch was also about  
>> inheritance...
>>
>> So for now, with your patch, I can't create a theme with only :
>>    mytheme/
>>       theme.info
>>       views/
>>          simple_uploader.html.php
>> (I must copy the default theme and add the file
>> simple_uploader.html.php)
>
> We made a decision early on that we'd try to avoid things like theme
> inheritance because we were afraid that added complexity here would be
> difficult to explain to themers.  Instead we opted for what I  
> believe to
> be a more commonplace theming approach: cut and paste.  I figure  
> that it
> is trivial for a themer to just make a new variant of a theme with the
> one or two changes that they want, and if we make cloning themes  
> really
> easy then we'll have a proliferation of simpler themes to work with.
>
> thoughts?