If you come up with the theme, including all the associated images and color specs and so on, you'd be more likely to actually see it get implemented. (Hint, hint...)

There's no reason for the people with graphic design skills NOT to create the themes themselves. I may be wrong, but the GIMPing probably takes way more time than loading a new theme into the code base...and it's something a volunteer could do pretty easily.

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