Hi Chris, Replacing the dash by an underscore in the theme name might help. See https://drupal.org/node/143020
Regards, Gaele On 10/10/2013 06:49 PM, Chris Miller wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am still trying to understand sub-themeing. I have four themes > installed and two enabled. Bartik(enabled), Seven(enabled), Garland, > Stark. I tried a minimal, trivial sub-theme of Bartik by creating a > subdirectory /sites/all/themes/bartik-cjm populated as follows: > > bartik-cjm/ > bartik-cjm.info > css/ > local.css > > _*bartik-cjm.info:*_ > > name = Bartik-cjm > base theme = Bartik > > core = 7.x > > stylesheets[all][] = css/local.css > > According to everything I've read, and it has been a increasing > amount, this should be sufficient to create a sub-theme named > "Bartik-cjm" which inherits everything from Bartik and overrides > local.css with my copy. I believe I should see this as one of the > options in admin/appearance, and I don't. I can see that > $data[system_list][theme] is populated from the MySQL database (select > * from cache_bootstrap where cid = "system_list";), which only has my > original four themes in the serialized object. > > So, either the database must be updated somewhere, somehow, by > someone, -- OR -- Drupal must look at the filesystem and realize that > there is more to the story than the database knows and extend the > list. So, how does Drupal become aware of the custom sub-theme? > -- > Chris.