ok wow… I really had no idea what this topic was about until I navigated to my themes admin page. Ahhh… can someone at least point to how to replace the obnoxious graphic with custom css?
edit: sorry found it above New themes & components layout - #10 by nolo
note:
I am not throwing stones, I LOVE 
Discourse, it is awesome software but at first I couldn’t even figure out how to view my theme settings and the graphic makes everything too big even on desktop
how about an option for a simple list?