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Tango project announced

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Jakub Steiner wrote: One thing I have been working on recently together with a few folks is what we now call the Tango project.

Tango aims to address a problem of visual inconsistency between applications commonly running on user's desktop when she/he is running a GNU/Linux distribution. Different projects have their own style that is consistent with itself (mostly), but the final user experience on the "linux desktop" is not so smooth. Just like there is a lot of standards people have been able to agree on across free software projects, Tango tries to propose a few building bricks to make the consistent visual experience possible.

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> So in the end the above statement is a correct assessment.

No. There's a difference between "not very community friendly" and
"community friendly but trying to stay focused wrt its work" (opposed to "overly community friendly just for the sake of increasing the head count").

Torsten Rahn, APPEAL Desktop Project