Installation instructions:

* You need the Qt 4 development files installed. On Fedora, that would be the
  qt4-devel package.

* Installation is as simple as:
  qmake-qt4
  make
  make install
  The make install step requires root privileges (unless your KDE 4 prefix is in
  your home directory or some other user-writable directory), so use su or sudo
  as appropriate. The libquarticurve.so plugin is installed to:
  $QT4DIR/plugins/styles
  where $QT4DIR is normally %{_libdir}/qt4 and %{_libdir} is either /usr/lib or /usr/lib64

* For Qt4-only apps:
  Best enjoyed with the following palette settings in ~/.config/Trolltech.conf (section [Qt]):
Palette\active=#000000, #e6e6e6, #ffffff, #f5f5f5, #cecece, #bfbfbf, #000000, #fafafa, #000000, #ffffff, #e6e6e6, #000000, #4464ac, #ffffff, #0000ff, #ff00ff, #f0f0f0
Palette\disabled=#808080, #e6e6e6, #fafafa, #f5f5f5, #8f8f8f, #bfbfbf, #bfbfbf, #fafafa, #000000, #ffffff, #e6e6e6, #000000, #000080, #ffffff, #0000ff, #ff00ff, #f0f0f0
Palette\inactive=#000000, #e6e6e6, #fafafa, #f5f5f5, #8f8f8f, #bfbfbf, #000000, #fafafa, #000000, #ffffff, #e6e6e6, #000000, #5e7ab7, #ffffff, #0000ff, #ff00ff, #f0f0f0

* For KDE 4 apps:
  Best enjoyed with the Quarticurve.colors color scheme. If you don't have the
  KDE 4 kcm_colors, you can set the following palette settings in
  $KDEHOME/share/config/kdeglobals (where $KDEHOME is the KDE 4 KDEHOME; in the
  Fedora packages, it defaults to ~/.kde):
[ColorEffects:Disabled]
Color=230,230,230
ColorAmount=0.83
ColorEffect=2
ContrastAmount=0
ContrastEffect=0
IntensityAmount=0
IntensityEffect=0
[Colors:Window]
BackgroundNormal=230,230,230
ForegroundInactive=127,127,127
ForegroundActive=255,255,255
ForegroundNormal=0,0,0
[Colors:Button]
BackgroundNormal=230,230,230
ForegroundInactive=127,127,127
ForegroundActive=255,255,255
ForegroundNormal=0,0,0
[Colors:Selection]
BackgroundNormal=76,89,166
ForegroundNormal=255,255,255
[Colors:Tooltip]
BackgroundNormal=255,255,220
[Colors:View]
BackgroundAlternate=240,240,240
BackgroundNormal=255,255,255
ForegroundLink=0,0,192
ForegroundVisited=128,0,128
ForegroundNormal=0,0,0
[KDE]
contrast=1
[WM]
activeBackground=70,79,134
activeForeground=255,255,255
inactiveBackground=197,197,197
inactiveForeground=127,127,127
  If you're using the Fedora packages or applied the patch from
  http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149705 yourself, you can set:
[General]
widgetStyle4=quarticurve
  to set this theme for KDE 4 only (not KDE 3).

Q&A:

* What is Quarticurve?
Quarticurve is a port of Red Hat's Bluecurve widget theme (taken out of
redhat-artwork 5.0.12) 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?
This version of Quarticurve should be of at least beta quality. In particular,
it should be fully usable, with no or only minor glitches, and hopefully no
crashes.

* Which of the Qt 4 desktop integration features are used?
- KDE button order
- non-editable comboboxes behave like in the original Qt 3 style
- currently using GNOME icons (through Cleanlooks), I might use the Plastique
  icon loading code or the KDE 4 icon loader in a future version, but it doesn't
  matter if you're using Bluecurve icons everywhere ;-)

* What about the KWin theme (window decorations)?
See Quarticurve-KWin:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Quarticurve-KWin+(for+KDE+4)?content=59972

* What about the icon theme?
The upstream Bluecurve icon theme supports KDE 4 as of Fedora 9.

        Kevin Kofler
