hi evry one . this is time for us to accept that XOOPS need new template format and design .
as you know , XOOPS is the best open surce cms ! but most of the user using other cms
same mambo , joomla or etc ... because it have a nice interface .

in iran you can see for example :
http://www.alef.ir ===> made by jommla
http://www.khedmat.ir ===> made by jommla too !

and when you visit the offical suport site you see a nice disagn that is work same a advertising!!

for example :
http://mambofarsi.com
http://www.joomla.ir/
http://www.ayaran.com/
http://www.esirjan.com/
http://www.smsip.ir/ ... !!!!

and you can see more here :
http://www.persiadesigner.com/ponygallery/Itemid,7/func,viewcategory/catid,1/

but in XOOPS what can i say ?! why Theme and template are same this ?
you can see XOOPS offical suport site here ! and in another language same
http://xoops.ir ==> iran
http://www.xoopsum.com/ ==>turky
http://www.xoopsitalia.org/ ==>italy

and more !
it is time for a revolution in XOOPS design . we must start now at this moment !
and we need a new format and flexibl system for Theme .if we do that we can see
xoops will be the first as it was before and else ... !

Hey Safir,

Welcome to X'oops, good points on the nice clean looking themes. But I see a 'who the hell do you think you are coming here with one post dictating to us' reply very soon or 'we have trolled this point up a billion times and you still have no right to tell us until you have X amount of posts in the forum.' ;)

But welcome all the same :)

Based on a few recent threads, I think the need for a new theme is well accepted.

A new theme is also being designed, I think based on morphogenesis but not sure of the exact details.

safir - some fair points, and it is currently being addressed as Madfish points out.

I can't give an exact date I'm afraid, as the people working on the site updates are just very busy with this - and other projects.

But yes - it is being worked on