Clearlooks is a theme for

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, the main

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used by the

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desktop environment. It is based on

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theme. It was the default theme for GNOME since version 2.12 until GNOME 3 when it was replaced by

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. Many users have contributed themes that have changed the colors and some visual effects, leading to many derivative themes. The creators of the Clearlooks GTK+ theme were Richard Stellingwerff and Daniel Borgmann; however, since 2005 the theme has been developed by GNOME, and current developers are Andrea Cimitan and Benjamin Berg. The current version of Clearlooks uses

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as a backend. Older releases just use

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to draw the widgets. Qt, versions 4.2 to 4.4, use a port of Clearlooks called ''Cleanlooks'' to better integrate with GTK applications.

GTK+ 3 Support

Since the departure of the GNOME Project from the development of GNOME 2 and GTK+ 2, developers forked GNOME 2 and created the

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desktop environment. It still contains almost all GNOME 2 features and themes. The Clearlooks theme is called ''TraditionalOK'' in MATE. Furthermore, a user by the name of jpfleury on Gnome-Look has recreated Clearlooks for GTK+ 3, called Clearlooks-Phenix.

References

External links

Clearlooks for Windows XP

Clearlooks for KDE

Blog about Clearlooks development
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