[wp-hackers] Re: [wp-svn] [5062] trunk: Add RTL support to kubrick.

[Matt Mullenweg]

Ryan Boren wrote:
> I'd like our bundled themes to support gettext, RTL, widgets, and
> custom header images.  We need to set a good example of what themes
> should be doing.  Not gettexting the default theme avoided some
> support problems at the time, but it has created maintenance problems
> with keeping the default up-to-date across all of the translations and
> has spawned hundreds of themes that don't use gettext.

Or to look at it another way, hundreds of themes were created that 
wouldn't have been if the default was gettexted.

-- 
Matt Mullenweg
  http://photomatt.net | http://wordpress.org
http://automattic.com | http://akismet.com