Clearlooks
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Clearlooks is a theme engine for GTK, the main widget toolkit used by the GNOME desktop environment. It is based on Red Hat's Bluecurve theme. The theme engine draws the actual widgets, and can be configured with 'themes' that invoke the theme engine with different configurations. It is the default theme engine for many Linux distributions including Fedora Core 4 and 5, Foresight_Linux, Ubuntu before 6.06 (Ubuntu used the Human theme which uses the Clearlooks engine) and SUSE LINUX. Many users have contributed themes that have changed the colours and some visual effects, leading to many derivative themes on sites such as art.gnome.org and GnomeLook.
The README distributed with Clearlooks 0.6 reads
- This is a GTK+ 2.x engine based on Bluecurve. It features a modern look without sacrificing (much) speed. The lead developers are Richard Stellingwerff and Daniel Borgmann.
There is currently a development version that uses Cairo and a stable one that just uses GDK to draw the widgets.
Ubuntu uses a derivative version called Ubuntulooks as of version 6.06 that is more shiny than Clearlooks and uses smooth gradients and soft colours.
QT Toolkit 4.2 will use Cleanlooks to better integrate with GTK applications.[1]
