Matt Mullenweg To Be In Charge Of The 2012 Default Theme

It was announced yesterday that Matt Mullenweg will be the one to oversee the development of Twenty Twelve, the new default theme for WordPress 3.4. Here is a list of things that the WordPress core team would like to see make it into Twenty Twelve:

single post/permalink view with post formats is needed

variable height header image

mobile version

default to static front page (will need a function in core to auto-choose)

editor styles the same as front end.

avoid clever things that aren’t super-useful (like ephemera widget)

start with 2011 as base for code (or 2010, which has gotten more updates and had more eyes on it)

no featured image in header

by default – no header image

If anything, it looks like Twenty Twelve will be simpler than Twenty Eleven. I wonder if the theme will be blue with rounded corners, just for old times sake?