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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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need to make up your mind

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2005-12-05 14:33.

there is no way that any one project can produce nice themes for all the desktop managers out there and plus I am not sure that it is such a good idea to even continue developing some of them. There are projects still frozen in the stone age as far as usability and design goes. While this alows you to still run your 10+ years old computer with some gui those projects are simply doomed.

As far as picking one desktop enviroment and sticking with it goes, I think this the only ticket there is. Yes Gnome and KDE are both good and it is hard to choose one over the other. I personally would go with KDE because of the C++ over C with custom classes thing. Anyway this is not the topic of the discussion. What I was trying to say is that unless there is one consistent desktop environment linux will remain to be this weird, geer-only, OS and it in no way deserves that reputation. After all windows is not the easies OS to deal with as far as administration goes yet most people use it on a day to day basis. Oh and while freedom is a great thing don't kid yourself ... it doesn't exist and cannot exist in a society. Plus just because there is an official/default desktop manager, noone says that you have to use it.

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