Now that the Essential theme is out of Alpha and into formal release, this forum has been started to allow for open discussion of bugs and feature requests.
You can watch an overview of some of the major features of the theme here: The “Essential” #bootstrap based #moodle theme has been submitted to the plugins DB and can be downloaded from https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=theme_essential.
Here is an overview of features: https://vimeo.com/channels/moodleman