Two different versions of the same base theme in the same site I'm wondering if it's possible to get two different branches of the same theme into the same site, both to be used as base themes.

Specifically I'm talking about Omega 7.x-3 and Omega 7.x-4 in the same site, but I guess the question applies to any theme.

Rationale: We're using Omega 4.x for the main theme (because of the nice front end stack), but for commerce sites (which this is), we also like to include Omega Kickstart as the admin theme. It's an improvement over Seven for very little work and clients seem to like it.

However, Omega Kickstart uses Omega 3.x as its base theme, and so conflicts with the newer version that's installed.

Short of taking a copy of one of the Omega versions, renaming it and all its internal functions, and then building a sub-theme from that, is there any way to get this sort of workflow?

UPDATE

Ok, er, so I made a bit of a mistake. I actually want to use the Shiny theme, not Omega Kickstart. Whoops.

But let's say I didn't, and definitely wanted to use Omega 3.x and 4.x in the same site...how might that go?
Themes, like modules, are identified by their names. The version number is never really used (except for updates obviously).

Anyway, i found myself facing a similar problem sometimes, and running a find&amp;replace on the theme directory to change every occurrence of the name with another inside the files never lead to unexpected behaviors.

well, i also had to manually rename the .info file, so it's not a completely automatic procedure, but still nothing that caused problems of any sort.