After #200495: Split up monolithic zen.css into smaller, logical stylesheets, there are a lot of stylesheets that will need to copied to a new sub-theme using the STARTERKIT. It will be a lot easier for theme developers if those stylesheets are already in the STARTERKIT ready to go. It was also shorten the "how to create a sub-theme" instructions a bit.

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Steven_NC commented

If all of the css files need to be copied to the sub-theme (the renamed STARTERKIT) folder, do they need to be in the zen folder at all? Would a sites/all/themes/sub-theme/css folder work?

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Title: Duplicate most zen stylesheets in STARTERKIT » Move zen stylesheets into STARTERKIT/css
Status: Active » Fixed

So I asked in twitter if people prefer a “css” or a “styles” directory. I typically use styles, but the response was about 95% vote for css, so I’m also going to move all the stylesheets into a css subdirectory.

And, yes, given that this is an issue #513926: Sub-themes cannot alter order of base theme css files, it would make sense to remove them from the zen core folder. I've come up with a solution where all the stylesheets go into the STARTERKIT. And then IZen just loads a copy of those files if it is made the active theme (which is rare since why would you want to use Zen as your theme?)

Which means zen.css is re-born! But it will remain hidden from any sub-themes.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.