My first two questions upon enabling my sub-theme:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! WHAT ARE ALL OF THOSE CRANKY PINK LINES?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! WHAT ARE ALL OF THESE "DEBUGGING" BLOCKS?

An easy thing to do for the debugging block concept is maybe changing the text to "This is a debugging block. (?)" that links you off to some documentation about it.

The crazy pink lines, I'm less sure of. Maybe a starter block in the "branding" region that explains what's going on? (and has a "hide this block" after)

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himerus’s picture

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+1

Argus’s picture

Argus CreditAttribution: Argus commented

Funny I never had those questions, surely if I had they would NEVER made me write 2 lines of capitals.

Then again my issue posts never made me get a +1 by the theme/module dev within less then a day either so why complain...:)

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Title: Throw new users a bone on this "crazy pink lines" and "debugging block" concept » Improve out of the box experience of subthemes

Okey, let's rephrase

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Yeah, I should clarify that I am not a designer, don't know anything about grid systems, how to do responsive design, etc. I'm in fact attempting to use this base theme as an attempt to shortcut having to learn all of that stuff by just hacking around with some CSS. ;)

Still though, I'm probably not the only one, and this "make the default subtheme super busy and then toggle stuff on and off" mechanism is very unique to this theme, it seems, so could probably use some description either way.

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I'd suggest that perhaps the debugging grid and blocks should be hidden by default (functionality enabled, but just not visible by default).

himerus’s picture

himerus CreditAttribution: himerus commented

This will be addressed (in some what which I'm not yet sure) in the 3.2 release.

Argus’s picture

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It could be as simple as turn both options off by default. That way you would get a 'normal' basetheme display.

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If there is to be any linking from the theme to documentation then this is the node we should be pointing to: http://drupal.org/node/1298690