Announcing Quarticurve: Unofficial Bluecurve Qt 4 port

[Kevin Kofler]

Hi everyone,

I'm announcing the project I've just spent this night on. Forgive me if this 
announcement sounds bad, one can't sleep and code at the same time, so I'm 
pretty tired now. ;-)

WARNING: This is an early alpha version (a one-night hack), it is NOT ready for 
production use yet! See the "Is it stable?" question below.

* What is Quarticurve?
Quarticurve is a port of Red Hat's Bluecurve widget theme (taken out of 
redhat-artwork 7.0.0) to Qt 4. (I started from the Qt 3 theme.) This port is 
NOT endorsed or supported by Red Hat.

* Where does the Quarticurve name come from?
A contraction of "Quartic" and "curve". Where "curve" comes from should be 
pretty obvious, as for "Quartic", it contains 'Q', 't' and conveys the idea 
of '4'. :-)

* What license is Quarticurve under?
GPL version 2, just as Bluecurve.

* Is it stable?
Not yet. I don't know about crashes (though I can't exclude them), but there 
are definitely several rendering glitches needing to be fixed before this is 
really usable.

* I want to test it anyway / send patches, where do I get it?
http://www.tigen.org/kevin.kofler/pcprogs/quarticurve.7z
(You need p7zip to extract the archive.)

* What about the KDM theme?
I'll consider porting that to KDE 4 once the Quarticurve widget theme works.

* What about the icon theme?
That should just need a few symlinks to work fine with KDE 4 (it has some of 
the needed symlinks already, mostly those required by the icon-naming-spec, but 
not all, especially those where the KDE 4 name is just the KDE 3 name with 
dashes instead of underscores), I plan to make a list of the needed symlinks 
and get that straight upstream into redhat-artwork.

* Is this a contribution to the Fedora Project?
This is Not a Contribution under the CLA, however it is Free Software under the 
GPL and can thus be packaged for Fedora like any other GPLed upstream project. 
(In fact, I plan to submit a package once the annoying rendering glitches are 
fixed.)

        Kevin Kofler