Well...see subject. Something I realized had been niggling me when the (mostly positive) Register review of F15 Beta mentioned it. GTK+ 2 'Adwaita' sure looks a lot like Clearlooks; is there a reason it can't be a bit more grey/white and rounded, like GTK+ 3 Adwaita? Why the blue?

On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 00:52 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Well...see subject. Something I realized had been niggling me when the > (mostly positive) Register review of F15 Beta mentioned it. GTK+ 2 > 'Adwaita' sure looks a lot like Clearlooks; is there a reason it can't > be a bit more grey/white and rounded, like GTK+ 3 Adwaita? Why the blue? Hi Adam, yes, the GTK2 theme is really nothing more than Clearlooks (it uses the Clearlooks engine indeed). Tweaking it to make it more similar to the GTK3 theme is possible, though you probably can't make it exactly the same, but it's a lot of work, which we didn't have enough time to do last cycle. Anyway, upstream is interested in improving it, so help is welcome of course, but I'd rather spend time porting apps to GTK3 instead of writing another GTK2 engine/theme.