- Bluecurve
Bluecurve is a
desktop theme forGNOME andKDE created by theRed Hat Artwork project. The main aim of Bluecurve was to create a consistent look throughout theLinux environment, and provide support for various Freedesktop.org desktop standards. It has been used inRed Hat Linux since version 8.0, and Fedora Core.The Bluecurve window borders and
GTK+ (widget) theme have been replaced by those fromClearlooks (the first in Fedora Core 4, the second in FC5). However, the old Bluecurve themes (windowing andwidget s) are still installed by default and can be selected in the theme manager. The Bluecurve icon set remains installed in Fedora 7, But has been replaced as the default by Echo. [cite web|url=http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork|title=Artwork|work=Fedora Wiki|publisher=Fedora Project |accessdate=2006-10-21|date=2006-10-06 ]There has been controversy surrounding the theme, especially the alterations to KDE, which were sufficiently severe as to cause developer
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer to quitRed Hat "mostly in mutual agreement — I don't want to work on crippling KDE, and they don't want an employee who admits RHL 8.0's KDE iscrippleware ." [cite web|url=http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=103293985032408|date=2002-09-25 |accessdate=2006-10-21|title=New address|last=Rosenkraenzer|first=Bernhard] [cite news|work=Slashdot |title=Bero Quits Red Hat Over Treatment of KDE|url=http://slashdot.org/linux/02/09/25/2042208.shtml|date=2002-09-25 |accessdate=2006-10-21] Others simply criticize it for giving the same look to both desktops, even though they are obviously different in many ways. This approach was subsequently emulated byMandrake Linux with their "Galaxy" theme, which was also available for GNOME and KDE, and inKubuntu 6.06 with theGTK-Qt theme engine (enabled by default).Fact|date=May 2008Enterprising GUI artists have created themes that emulate the Bluecurve theme on other operating systems, including Windows. Users can also replace their default Windows icons with icons that emulate Bluecurve, using the
IconPackager application. One such set can be downloaded atWinCustomize .References
External links
* [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork Fedora Artwork]
* [http://www.wlug.org.nz/BlueCurve Waikato Linux Users Group wiki article]
* [http://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=1003&LibID=2 Bluecurve icon pack for IconPackager (Windows)]
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