This theme is incorrectly branded. The graphic clearly depicts unicorns, happy rainbows, white stars, yellow sun, and a strange signature, however there is a clear lack of ponies prancing, dancing, or otherwise romancing in the image. In order to meet the requirements demanded by such a claim of "Unicornponies" this theme needs to be rethought. I would also like to take this time to suggest that the image that represents the inner essence of "Unicornponies" is named "UNIPORN.jpeg" which is neither wholesome nor pony-like.

As an attempt to approach a more wholesome theme brand, I suggest that there should be more emphasis on the pony-ness than the uni-ness that this theme currently expresses.

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eaton commented

The attached patch features a pony with a hat. I'm concerned that some users may confuse the pony's conical hat with a horn, muddying the distinction between unicorns and the much more common ponies. We already get enough flack on the accessibility front, I would hate for us to introduce another problem.

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dmitrig01 commented

I agree with eaton. I was confused by this picture. Then again, it claims to be a unipony, so the ambiguity may be intended.

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arthurf commented
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While there does seem to be precedent for the subsuming of pony identity into the unicorn- class unipony extends pony- the issue is that class unicorn extends narwhal which has the potential to create additional unclarity of what begat what. From an accessibility standpoint I think that ponies with hats is a step up from the collusion of unicorns and narwhals. If we don't address this now we're going to have the PlatytapieTrout theme next week.

If this theme were to enable preprocessing of WWRDD other modules and themes could extend how pony gets rendered which would lessen my concern that the inheritance of narwhal could override pony display without careful implementation.