Ok admittedly most developers will never have to use this trick, but if you ever use color module, or any advanced customization through the theme settings API you will want to do some theming on the theme settings page!

My premium drupal themes in fact do a lot of things with the theme settings form, to name a few:

• Override the color module stuff to modify the color palette
• Add a bunch of jQuery scripts to enable live preview of color and layout settings (including a cool animation that resizes the container to any fixed or fluid width)
• Adding stuff to the form that just needs custom styling, like the Cufon fonts overview

A trend is is recently gaining popularity is the admin theme. There are some great admin themes out there, but unfortunately the admin theme will also load on the theme settings page and spoil the configuration features. In Drupal 7, an admin theme is actually standard, so I was worried I was going to have to write a module to force the theme onto the theme settings page, and I think a theme that requires a module to function is not very elegant, neither is it convenient.

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