[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12680: Rename old default theme to "Kubrick"

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#12680: Rename old default theme to "Kubrick"
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 Reporter:  nacin         |       Owner:     
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.0
Component:  Themes        |     Version:     
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:     
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 It's going to be confusing for (new) users to see Twenty Ten and WordPress
 Default side by side. We should rename WordPress Default to WordPress
 Kubrick, and change its description to reflect that it used to be the
 default theme (much like the Classic theme's description).

 We can rename it in style.css and be done with it, or we can take more
 complicated approaches.

 Things to consider:

 1. An active theme cannot be renamed without some problems. It used to be
 worse (see #12428), but the main issue now is that theme mods (header,
 background, etc.) are stored as mods_$theme, where $theme is the theme
 name (instead of the directory, for some reason).

 2. Do we rename the directory as well? If we do, we would need to avoid
 doing this if the theme is active (even as a parent). And we would need to
 account for "default" as always being an alias to "kubrick" when
 referencing the parent theme from a child theme as well.

 3. Renaming the directory in new installs makes sense, but how would we
 handle upgrades?

 4. How can we do this without breaking anything?

 There are potentially more angles to this. See
 [https://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=wordpress-
 dev&day=2010-03-237sort=asc#m94430 this IRC discussion] among me,
 Viper007Bond, and jorbin.

 This might be a good time to bring up the fact that the automatic upgrader
 copies over wp-content. Maybe it's time to rely on the theme/plugin
 upgraders to handle updating wp-content, and have instructions in there to
 copy over themes only if the theme directory is nonexistent? We won't be
 bundling any more plugins in core, and as we bundle new themes, they can
 be copied over (and then updated via the theme upgrader).

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