bluecurve

[bpark]

Is it possible to install bluecurve (window theme) for Gnome AND KDE in other distros?

[Hellmasker]

i dont see why not, u just have to find the files for it. (maybe at kde.org themes section)?

[bpark]

Well, I've seen this done before (at Gentoo screenshots) and I was really interested if I can get it to work. I have a theme that I downloadede from art.gnome but it's a metacity package. Still, there must be a way to extract it put them in the right directory. Can anyone help me out?

[scientica]

I have a theme that I downloadede from art.gnome but it's a metacity package. Still, there must be a way to extract it put them in the right directory.

It seems like the metacity themes are placed here:
/usr/share/themes/
(I'm on Fedora Core 1, updated from RH8.0)

here is an excerpt

[frekla@ns1 tmp]$ locate metacity | grep theme
/usr/bin/metacity-theme-viewer
/usr/share/doc/metacity-2.6.3/theme-format.txt
/usr/share/doc/metacity-2.6.3/metacity-theme.dtd
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/bottom_right.png
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/bottom_left.png
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/maximize.png
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/close.png
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/menu.png
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/white_stripes_tile.png
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/minimize.png
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/restore.png
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/title-blocker-bottom.png
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/title-blocker-left.png
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/title-blocker-right.png
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/title-gradient-bottom.png
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/top_left.png
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/metacity-1/top_right.png
...

btw I got metacity-2.6.3-1 installed (rpm), you got that package, right?

[bpark]

I converted redhat-artwork.rpm to a deb using alien and it works. I feel retarded using the bluecurve icons because of that fedora icon replacing the KDE icon but it's nice when something works.

http://www.dolda2000.com/~bpark/snapshot1.png
http://www.dolda2000.com/~bpark/snapshot2.png

[whiteskin]

Probably wouldnt be that hard to gimp the normal kde icon back onto the bluecurve background.

[bpark]

I could probably just copy the icon over to the right directory and rename it as well.

[bpark]

I got a painfully annoying problem with this new window theme.

The title bar color is now seeping into the minimize button and the right corners (both top and bottom) have a tiny dot on each corner. I suspect that there is a calibration error here.
This next pic clearly describes what I am referring to:
http://www.dolda2000.com/~bpark/snapshot3.png

Before, it used to look like this:
http:///www.dolda2000.com/~bpark/snapshot2.png

Any help is greatly appreciated.