[wp-hackers] Style.css calls the shots?

[Bill Dennen]

> Wouldn't scanning thru the folder names under the /themes give the same result?
>
> I'm not saying/suggestion, the current way is bad or anything. I'm
> just trying to understand why the choice was made that way. Why do we
> have to have template name definen in the style.css? There must be a
> reason.

One relatively recent phenomenon -- a theme's parent is designated in
its style.css.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

ie.

Template: twentyten

It'd hard to imagine how the directory structure could do this without
creating a jumble of sub-folders, isn't it?

-Bill