[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21931: White screen of death if theme can't be found

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#21931: White screen of death if theme can't be found
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 Reporter:  ericlewis                 |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement               |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes                    |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion dev-feedback  |
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Comment (by ericlewis):

 Replying to [comment:9 MikeHansenMe]:
 > what about "Looks like the website is having theme trouble, please
 notify the site owner" or something to that effect?

 That's nearly the same thing as a white screen of death.

 After chatting with Nacin in IRC a bit, some thought has to be put in here
 in regard to the ambiguity of the problem, and the ambiguity of the
 audience. This situation may arise from not just the themes folder
 missing, it may be a filesystem error, or come from another unknown cause.
 Therefore, our presentation of the error should respect this fact, and not
 send developers with possibly misleading debug information.

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