I've been working on a few ideas for layouts (see: dyingscene) and I'm kind of scrapped on what S2 theme I should work with. I've been working with Smooth Sailing a lot lately, but I'm still quite fond of Flexible Squares. I'm also still into dark colors.

But I was wondering about ideas from other people. Like... What theme (Smooth Sailing, Flexible Squares, Mixit, Bloggish, etc) do you guys prefer? What colors are pleasing to you? Do you find actual backgrounds annoying or neat? Are (customizable) headers (as in image headers) important to you? Do you like "topbars" better than sidebars? Are matching comment/archive/tags pages your cup of tea? Do you find my layouts a pain to install? Would more technical installations (messing with 'display' in Customize Journal Theme, for example) be a chore or would that be something you're interested in? Do I need to explain installing the layouts better? /etc

I'm really curious as to what people are looking for and what they enjoy. Maybe knowing these things would help me out a bit in future layout making.