[GoLUG] GTK 2/3/4 port of Bluecurve theme

[Steve Litt]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:14:59 -0800
Kyle Terrien <kyle at terren.us> wrote:

> Long ago, in the mythical age called the 1990s, a company named Red
> Hat attempted to unify the sundry GUI toolkits with a common widget
> styling.  This was the Bluecurve project.  Bluecurve remained the
> design language through Red Hat 8-9 and Fedora 1-3, until Clearlooks
> replaced it circa 2006.
> 
> By complete accident, I discovered a finished and working GTK 3/4 port
> of Bluecurve, designed specifically for MATE and XFCE, although you
> can run it on any GTK-based desktop.  This port has the widget styles,
> in several color schemes, as well as the window borders, icon set, and
> cursor set.  Everything related to Bluecurve is in one place.
> 
> https://github.com/neeeeow/Bluecurve
> 
> This project is close to my heart, because in summer 2016 I tried to
> port Bluecurve to GTK3.  I had my port 80% working before losing steam
> for various reasons.  I named this pet project Blueshell.
> 
> But wait.  Take a look at Bluecurve’s README.
> 
> > GTK 3/4 theme, forked from Blueshell  
> 
> Yes, the development chain traces back to *my* Blueshell.  I am
> acknowledged by the nickname of KlipKyle in the copyright header.  🙂
> I feel like I planted a seed long ago, and today I discovered to my
> pleasant surprise that it had germinated into a pretty flower.

Your preceding sentence exactly describes what happened. You should be
very proud of this. Everybody and their dog talks big talk, but very
few produce. You produced.

I take pride in your achievement because you're one of my friends and
you're I'm in your Linux club.

SteveT

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