CodaCoder/Russ - thanks for your input and recommendations.

I've actually gained some basic proficiency with CSS over the past years 
(thanks to fiddling in TW) but it is definitely still too much of a hassle. 
Consider that themes, and tools for these, are a HUGE, HUGE deal in e.g 
publishing platforms like Wordpress. But it's barely even a discussion 
topic in the TW project. Of course, TW is not a publishing platform but it 
definitely has potential to be used as one (blogs, books, papers, or just 
websites for that matter).

I'd think themes are a HUGE deal for those other actors because people need 
to customize and control the appearence of what they show to others. To say 
that people should "just tweak the CSS manually" is missing the point. It's 
a bit like saying we don't need wikitext because you can do it with html 
and js. 

On the other hand, maybe TW people just aren't interested in "looks" and 
that's why themes are not a big deal here? TWs are typically not public so 
there is probably some truth to this but I also think the lack of styling 
tools hampers innovation and development of themes.  gain, Skeleton might 
not at all be a step in the right direction, I don't know. And I think 
there are other routes than eventual CSS frameworks that would be much more 
powerful for style matters, that take advantage of TW powers and that could 
be used instead of explicit CSS hacking. I have some ideas myself so we'll 
see what comes up ;-)

<:-)

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