Bluecurve is a desktop theme for

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and

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created by the

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Artwork project. The main aim of Bluecurve was to create a consistent look throughout the

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environment, and provide support for various Freedesktop.org desktop standards. It was used in

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in version 8 and 9, and in its successor OS,

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through version 4. Fedora-yarrow-bluecurve

The Bluecurve

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borders and

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theme were replaced by those from Clearlooks (the former in Fedora Core 4, and the latter in Fedora Core 5). The Bluecurve

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set remained installed in Fedora 7, but was replaced as the default b
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There had been controversy surrounding the theme, especially the alterations to KDE, which were sufficient to cause developer Bernhard Rosenkraenzer to quit

, "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

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." Others simply criticized it for giving the same look to both desktops, even though they were obviously different in many ways. This approach was subsequently emulated by Mandrake Linux with their "Galaxy" theme, which was also available for GNOME and KDE, and in

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6.06 with the GTK-Qt theme engine (enabled by default). Enterprising GUI artists have created themes in the past that emulated the Bluecurve theme on other operating systems, including

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Fedora ArtworkWaikato Linux Users Group wiki articleBluecurve icon pack for IconPackager (Windows)
Computer icons Free software projects GNOME KDE Red Hat software

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