Bluecurve

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Bluecurve is a desktop theme for GNOME and KDE created by the Red Hat Artwork project. The main aim of Bluecurve was to create a unified look throughout the Linux environment. It has been used in Red Hat Linux since version 8.0, and Fedora Core.

There has been controversy surrounding the theme, especially the alterations to KDE, which were sufficiently severe as to cause developer Bernhard Rosenkraenzer to quit Red Hat [1] — "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 is crippleware." [2] Others simply criticize it for giving the same look to both desktops, even though they are obviously different in many ways.

The Bluecurve windowing theme was succeeded in Fedora Core 4 by Clearlooks, although the icons remain.

Enterprising GUI artists have created themes that emulate the Bluecurve theme on other operating systems, including Windows. Users can download one such theme at DeviantART [3]. Users can also replace their default Windows icons with icons that emulate Bluecurve, using the IconPackager application. One such set can be downloaded at WinCustomize. [4]

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