BlueCurve Theme on Ubuntu Intrepid

by Ronnie Whisler

The past couple days I've been interested in the fastest gtk-engine-theme available to load on my Ubuntu box. I just simply didn't want fast but as elegant as I could get. My search did not have to go far after discovering a couple articles and speed tests that still had BlueCurve theme engine as the fastest and by far the most elegant considering the speed increase.

So I began looking to get the "real" bluecurve installed on my Ubuntu box. The easiest way to do this is also the best way to do it. This is how I did it.

First I downloaded the redhat-artwork package from Redhat. Then I installed alien through synaptic. Next I opened the terminal and went to the directory in which I downloaded the file. After that I typed "sudo alien -i redhat-artwork*" (without the quotes) in the terminal and entered my password when prompted.

When it was finished I doubled clicked on the new .deb package it created using alien and installed with gdebi package manager.

Once installed I went to System-Preferences-Appearances and selected the BlueCurve Theme. I then clicked on customize and selected the following.

• controls = bluecurve
• windowborder = bluecurveclassic
• icons= tango
• pointer = bluecurve

I have found this theme to be incredibly fast, stable, easy to use and elegant.

You can base your own decisions or customize your own speed vs elegance theme using the graph below.

Derived from gianvito

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