wow, my first post in...dunno, MONTHS...

anyways, to clarify some of what devilboi was saying, a GUI would be nice for newbs, and for some of us who are just too lazy nowadays to write a new theme out by hand (*points at myself). no question there. the problem is, one of two things would have to happen. the GUI would have to be written to work for every single module out there (and a new version released every time a new module is put out or updated), or else every single module out there would have to be re-written and standardized, so the GUI could access them. both solutions would obviously involve quite a bit of work on the part of the coders. and for the various modules which were written, then the dev dropped off the face of the earth taking the source code with them...well, they would have to be re-written from scratch, or just written off as lost. (module development may have become standardized in the months I was afk, I dunno, but the older modules weren't, I'm sure.)