[wp-testers] Default theme

[spencerp]

Sean, I kinda agree with you on that. It isn't the "best" theme for "newbs" 
to be starting out on and modifying even... =(  Even with me, after how many 
hours of "learning some what" of the themes and stuff.... it took me hours 
to get things done to it, the way I want to... sigh.

But, those hours of "self teaching" also helps in the end too though..  I 
have now made a few variations of this theme, and include "fixes" for those 
popular problems... "1px footer/ header shift" and so on..

But I'm just hoping, maybe this "fixed" version of it, could be maybe added 
into version 2.0.4 of WordPress... It might help cut down on the support 
requests about the Header/Footer shift and so on...

Atleast out of the box, the "problems" should be minimal.. well, hopefully 
lol!

spencerp


> (I was referring to the code, not the appearance in cleanliness.)
> Again, I have no objection to Kubrick being shipped with WP, but it
> simply should not be default: whether its code is cleaned up or not,
> it's still designed to do more than "default" really needs to do.
>
> Keeping it as "default" basically adds bulk to WP's core and is
> harmful to those who want to develop with it. Including as an extra
> but non-essential theme benefits those who want an easy install and
> makes it easy for theme developers.
>
> -Sean Hayford-O'Leary
>
> On 6/11/06, Andy Skelton <skeltoac at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6/11/06, Sean Hayford O'Leary <sdho at sdho.org> wrote:
>> > Classic's cleaner than Kubrick, but it still leaves some to be
>> > desired.
>>
>> Kubrick has something no other theme has. Kubrick is good for
>> WordPress the way Angelina Jolie's face is good for Angelina Jolie.
>> (Sorry. I had http://botd.wordpress.com/ on my mind.) You may not like
>> the way it looks, but it's distinctive and enough people like it.
>>
>> Point being: I value the sort of brand recognition that we get from
>> Heilemann's handy design work. I don't think the look of Kubrick is
>> sacred. Maybe it's precious.
>>
>> I don't suggest that the original Kubrick code should never be
>> overhauled or even tweaked. Rather, it's the target of enough
>> complaints that I'm surprised it's not patched already. Is anybody
>> interested in doing that? Has it been done satisfactorily?
>>
>> Andy
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