Cerberus wrote:yes ther is a new frame work bein worked on at the momment for K1.6 but as it is still under developement i can not give you any more information than that at this time or they will shoot me 
well thanks for the reply. but the answer is not not much help as there has been the same 1 template that has been used for years now.. yes its been updated but i just installed the new 1.5.11 on a brand new install 1.5.15 and the the April release of Quantive and there are these same small CSS issues that have been there for as long I know of just simple CSS things in Kunena template get either get overridden and or get off format.. but there are just some little CSS updates that i did before and will do now to fix these.
Point being is i am just trying to figure out if there was forum or development group to know what direction and standards for the framework of template are going on..
Seems there is work going on but you can not tell as its some secret well maybe under wraps from us the public just on where the progress is and what to actually expect?
as there are probably at least a few people here with the excellent CSS design skills that would like to contribute but there is not actual place to get any info on this as the need for a wireframe and grid based system to offer flexibility both for the design and development..
but i understand to some extent as i looked underhood at the code and it was a mess to me because when i started with joomla i studied the MVC design pattern and how directory structure and how all the CLASSES and SubClassess fall into relationship of MVC.. OOP!

object oriented. i not familiar 1.0 joomla days as i know this was made for that originally.
in any case would be interested in contributing to design end of the development if they are looking for some help as i know there is bigger picture of the work and gettig the core updated to true MVC..
hopefully 2.0 started from scratch.. as i found it easier on some of these older code to take it part like legos and rebuild it the blocks.. as i trying to fix and understand took much more time..
again thanks for your time.. as back to the main question of this post as i was interested in the TEMPLATE DESIGN timeline or framework..
but seems to be a private subject at this time on exactly whats being done or is done. but something being done