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Tango project aims to clean up the desktop

Submitted by stro on Mon, 2005-12-05 00:41. Gnome Art

One obstacle for Linux to overcome on the desktop is the lack of a consistent visual interface. While Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X offer users and developers consistent themes, Linux supports a plethora of dissimilar desktop environments and window managers. The Tango Desktop Project is working to change that.

The Tango project is an effort to establish high-usability visual themes for Linux desktops that function consistently across multiple desktop environments. Tango evolved from private discussions between Novell's Jakub Steiner and Mozilla Visual Identity Team lead Steven Garrity. The project went public at the Boston GNOME Summit in October. Project participants are working on specifications for cross-environment themes and a fully compatible theme they hope will be adopted by vendors.

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They absolutely are

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2005-12-05 13:04.

They absolutely are involved. The discussion linked to in the article was the XDG list, not the Tango list. The Tango list and the #tango IRC channel both have active participants from KDE.

Probably just some KDE user. For an official reply, read here:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-November/007459.html

"Sorry, but you are stating something that might be misleading. KDE has exactly _no_ plans whatsoever for shipping the Tango icon theme itself."

As I have pointed out numerous times, the specs are the work of the Tango project, not the theme itself.

But that's not what the Tango guys are saying, as pointed out in the other post. What I understood about Tango is that the specs are only the way to reach visual unification of all desktops. And that's exactly the reason why KDE and XFCE won't be "dancing"[1]. If it's not the case, i.e. tango is _only_ about specs and the theme is just an example, then they should make it clear on the website... KDE and XFCE already showed interest in a common icon specification, and AFAIK the next KDE default theme, Oxygen, will support it as well.

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-November/007460.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-November/007461.html

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