Bluecurve GTK 3/4

Red Hat Bluecurve theme ported over to GTK 3/4. Designed for the MATE, Xfce and KDE desktop environments.

Screenshot

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Contents

• GTK 3/4 theme, with support for dynamic color theming.
• GTK 2 engine and theme.
• Original Bluecurve Metacity themes, updated to resolve issues arising from using old metacity themes on newer versions of MATE.
• Original Bluecurve XFWM4 theme, updated to support additional color schemes.
• Bluecurve icons in scalable SVG format, taken from the original Adobe Illustrator source.
• Bluecurve cursors.
• Luxi font family (fonts used originally in Red Hat 8-9 and early versions of Fedora and RHEL).
• Wallpapers that shipped with Red Hat 8-9 and early versions of Fedora, some of which were updated to widescreen by myself.

Installation

Requirements

• GTK 2/3 development libraries.
• CMake.
• Python 3.

1. Download the theme

Either download the latest release or clone the git repository:

git clone https://github.com/neeeeow/Bluecurve.git
cd Bluecurve

Caution

You must either download the latest release or clone the git repository. Simply downloading the repository as a .zip file breaks permissions!

2. Compile & install

Important

GTK 2 is no longer included on some distributions, including RHEL 10 and the upcoming Debian 14. If your distribution does not include GTK 2, execute cmake .. -DCOMPILE_GTK2_ENGINE=OFF instead of cmake .. to disable GTK 2 engine compilation.

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

(Optional) 3. Install Luxi fonts

Warning

Only do this step if your distribution doesn't include the Luxi font family.

First create the directory ~/.local/share/fonts if it doesn't exist:

mkdir ~/.local/share/fonts

Next, copy the fonts to the directory:

cp fonts/*.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts

(Optional) 4. Install the Qt 5/6 theme

See neeeeow/Bluecurve-Qt.

(Optional) 5. Install the KDE 6 theme

See neeeeow/Bluecurve-KDE.

Hints

Use Red Hat icon in MATE menu bar

Simply execute the following command:

gsettings set org.mate.panel.menubar icon-name 'redhat-icon-panel-menu'

Contributing

Contributors are more than welcome! If you would like to contribute, first read the contributing guidelines.