Here are theme system improvements or CSS/XHTML items in the queue that could use the eyes of designer/themer-types.
- Allow customizing themes from the UI
- Add $classes to hook templates
- Refactor page (and node) rendering
- Allow Inline CSS in drupal_add_css
- Allow external CSS in drupal_add_css
- Allof CSS files to be altered (hook_css_alter)
- Add numeric weight to drupal_add_css
See also: All theme-related patches
Fixed