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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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    NO TOUCH MONKEY!
  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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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  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.