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Sample of the Clearlooks 2.20 theme with various applications. Clearlooks is a theme for GTK, the main widget toolkit used by the GNOME desktop environment. It is based on Red Hat's Bluecurve theme. It was the default theme for GNOME since version 2.12 until GNOME 3 when it was replaced by Adwaita. [1]
[5] [6] UKUI is a lightweight desktop environment, which consumes few resources and works with older computers. It has been developed with GTK and Qt technologies. Its visual appearance is similar to Windows 7, making it easier for new users of Linux. [7]
On January 19, 2011, Carlos Garnacho announced his completion of a tangible GTK theme implementation of Adwaita that could then be utilized by GNOME. [ 10 ] The first major Linux distribution to ship with GNOME 3.0 and Adwaita as a default was Fedora Linux when it released version 15 on May 24, 2011.
Xfce is a highly modular desktop environment, [6] with many software repositories separating its components into multiple packages. [7] The built-in settings app offers options to customize the GTK theme, the system icons, the cursor, and the window manager.
GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit [2] and GTK+ [3]) is a free software cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). [4] It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it.
The GTK-Qt Theme Engine is a project allowing GTK to use Qt widget styles. Aimed primarily at KDE users, it uses Qt to draw the widget into an offscreen buffer, then draws a copy of the contents of this buffer onscreen.
The GNOME Project, i.e. all the people involved with the development of the GNOME desktop environment, is the biggest contributor to GTK, and the GNOME Core Applications as well as the GNOME Games employ the newest GUI widgets from the cutting-edge version of GTK and demonstrates their capabilities.
Bluecurve in use with Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow) on the GNOME 2.4 Desktop. The Bluecurve window borders and GTK theme were replaced by those from Clearlooks (the former in Fedora Core 4, and the latter in Fedora Core 5). The Bluecurve icon set remained installed in Fedora 7, but was replaced as the default by Echo. [1]