So I was looking up the Trac instance for pudge (which is here). All of the lesscode Trac instances are styled to go with the rest of the site. Slick?

Now, I swear this is not just laziness speaking, but I think I prefer it without the template. Keeping the navigation wrapper from the site is nice (like Django does), but when I'm in a bug tracker I like to know my way around. To some degree I've started to feel comfortable in Trac (simply because it's become very common). I want consistency with other Trac instances, not with the site or project the tracker is attached to. The way I interact with a tracker has little or nothing to do with the project that uses it, and everything to do with the software behind the tracker.

I feel like there's some important user interface lesson here, but I don't think it's actually important enough for me to try to extract it. Plus that'd be pretentious. I'll say only this: hobgoblins!