Steven Garrity, my good friend and creative director of silverorange, has announced the creation of the Tango Project, an effort that aims to provide:

A specified default native look.A subsystem to help standardize toolkits on a common look and feel.A complete, standard set of application, mimetype, and stock icons to build upon a style guide.Cross-desktop humane interface guidelines.

Looks to be an excellent project. Can't wait to see what comes out of it.

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BÃ¨r · 2005-10-12 00:23:24

how is this different from the long-time existing freedesktop.org project? They have achieved a lot of milestones already. What makes this effort different from freedesktop?

FactoryJoe · 2005-10-12 09:06:33

Well, judging from my first impression on both sites, the Tango Project definitely has much more visual appeal -- and has a bunch of great folks involved. I seem to remember them mentioning the FreeDesktop project as a source of inspiration, so maybe it's a second generation branch of the project... Not sure exactly, but it looks promising!

Open source getting a unified desktop