[wp-hackers] Sandbox in WP Core?

[Viper007Bond]

Yeah, but it'd be lost in the massive number of themes.

I find Kubrick a perfectly acceptable default theme, but it's very hard to
modify it. Distributing a very light sandboxy theme with WordPress (and even
dropping the "classic") theme would be a good idea in my opinion. It'd teach
people how themes work and provide a good base to modify from.

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:15 PM, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:

> The ability to install new themes from within the Administration
> section, Much like plugins, Would really help users there.. It'll be
> much easier for them to install Sandbox, or find a better theme that
> suits them..
>
> ...Unfortunately, I'm just not having the time right now to actually
> finish off writing it.. Life & work have got in the way again :(
>
> 2009/2/2 Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>:
> > Too many people do use it. (Myself included, on one site.)
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nathan Rice" <ncrice at gmail.com>
> > To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2009 9:28:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Sandbox in WP Core?
> >
> > I think it's nice that it's not attractive.  At least the fact that it's
> > ugly means not a lot of people will use it. :-)
> >
> > My Website
> > http://www.nathanrice.net/
> >
> > My Twitter
> > http://twitter.com/nathanrice
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Mike Schinkel
> > <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>wrote:
> >
> >> It would be nice if the default theme was at least reasonably
> attractive...
> >>
> >> -Mike Schinkel
> >> http://mikeschinkel.com/
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Nathan Rice" <ncrice at gmail.com>
> >> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> >> Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2009 9:17:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> >> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Sandbox in WP Core?
> >>
> >> I definitely feel like including any theme AT ALL is little more than a
> >> necessary evil.  It gives users SOMETHING to use to start off, and it
> give
> >> us theme developers an example of any new features that have been added
> for
> >> themes (like threaded comments, for instance), but that's about all.
> >> Bloating the download with another theme just seems unnecessary.
> >>
> >> And I agree with Eric, there are other theme frameworks out there that
> are
> >> arguably better than Sandbox.
> >>
> >> Nathan
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Eric Marden <wp at xentek.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Feb 1, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Mike Walsh wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I have built a prototype of a theme on Sandbox but am not sure I want
> >> >> to continue if it is a dead end project.
> >> >>
> >> >> Mike
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > There are a number of theme frameworks out there besides Sandbox.
> >> >
> >> > I personally use K2 (http://getk2.com) but Thesis ($ ->
> >> > http://diythemes.com/thesis/), Thematic (
> >> > http://themeshaper.com/thematic-for-wordpress/), Starkers (
> >> >
> >>
> http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/archive/2008/free-starkers-wordpress-theme/
> >> ),
> >> > and Carrington (http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/#themes) are also
> >> > interesting.
> >> >
> >> > You might find something to build off of from one of those.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > -e
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