After running Red Hat Fedora Core 3 at work, I’ve grown quite fond of the Bluecurve theme by Garrett LeSage, and wanted it on my Debian system at home. While the engine is available for Debian under GTK2 Engines Wonderland, the full icon set and titlebar graphics are absent from the package. The solution is simple enough: grab the original redhat-artwork RPM package and convert to the Debian package management format with alien:

fakeroot alien redhat-artwork--0.122-10.i386.rpm
dpkg -i redhat-artwork_0.122-11_i386.deb

Easy as pie. Unfortunately, it looks like Red Hat FC4 will be using the Clearlooks theme by default, which is also quite pleasant. The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if this is due to LeSage’s decision to leave Red Hat.