Why doesn't GTK+ 2 Adwaita look more like GTK+ 3 Adwaita?

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 09:34 -0400, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
> 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.

Ah, I see. I just wondered if there were a deeper explanation :) Thanks
for the info.
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