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Tango Project to Make Open Source Beautiful?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the whole-lot-more-than-two-to-tango dept.

DW writes "Steven Garrity has announced the Tango Project, fronted by himself and Jakub Steiner of Novell. The Tango Project is a collaborative effort of a variety of free/open-source software designers and artists to work towards unifying the visual style of the free (mostly Linux) desktop."

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  1. Oh no, not again. by spankfish · · Score: 4, Informative

    Tango is also the name of the ugliest excuse for a web development platform on this green earth. It is, hands down, the most putrid language I have ever seen. Kind of like a mutant offspring of BASIC, RPG, and old ColdFusion.

    These guys should seriously consider a name change.

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  2. For those who didn't RTFL by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's actually about visual guidelines for icons, not for "the desktop".

    I'd estimate that about 1% of my desktop is taken up by icons right now, though I do prefer nice icons to crappy ones.

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  3. Dead on Arrival due to license by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The icons are licensed under Creative Commons Share-Alike. The Creative Commons licenses don't meet Debian Free Software Guidelines, so would not be inlcuded in Debian.

    See here for a summary of the problems with Creative Commons licenses:

    http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html

  4. Re:Nice by idlemachine · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://freedesktop.org/wiki/ predates it by quite some time. It appears that Tango's focus is more on the visual appearance, while freedesktop.org aims to provide at least a loose level of standardisation for linux desktops. The two projects definitely compliment each other nicely.

  5. Re:Guidelines, not just icons? by ssergE · · Score: 3, Informative

    Quite some time ago GNOME released the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.

    It covers all aspects, included those that you gave in your examples, and I would credit it to one of the reasons why the GNOME desktop is so nice to use.

    Give it a look sometime, especially if you are a developer.

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  6. Re:Agree - but its not the 'killer app' either... by stor · · Score: 3, Informative

    Gimp UI devs need a sharp rap across the knuckles. Otherwise, it would be a CHECK,

    You might be interested in this.

    In short: they know, they're working on it...

    Cheers
    Stor

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