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"It [tango] is working on a common set of visual metaphors that are internationally acceptable. There is an ongoing effort for supporting these visual metaphors and specifications in different desktops, and by different iconsets and themes, such as KDE's oxygen iconset."
Do the oxygen icons aim to support the Tango visual metaphors ? If not it may not be worth mentioning the oxygen icons here, rather in an article about the freedesktop specifications, unless they also aim to be cross desktop, and not only for KDE.
84.103.158.105 23:15, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
There are two parts of the tango-project: one, improve the icon name specification and the icon theme specs. This is non controversial, but hardly a part of the "tango-project": these are separate freedesktop standards, and discussions about these specs are made on the mailing list xdg at fredesktop.org. The other part, which is exclusive to Tango, is the visual project, which aims to be the default look and hig for linux: (from the Tango web page):
"Eventually, the Tango Desktop initiative aims to provide:
So they do aim to be the standard linux look and hig. But to be the standartd, they have to reach for all participants, and KDE developers were not consulted, and don't accept Tango as their default look (they have chosen to go with something else). This is relevant information, and should be included in the article. At least, point out that Tango has not been accepted as the default theme for the main free desktops, KDE and GNOME. They are not the standard because they say they are, but because people accept the iconset and look. And that has yet to happen. -- Carloswoelz 18:08, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Funnily enough, for Firefox 3 on Linux the Mozilla Foundation apparently plans to lift available icons from the Tango icon set and to design the rest in the Tango style, for improved optical integration into the OS (read: Gnome using Tango look). Seems the circle is going to close. Link If and when it’s done, it should be worth mentioning. --Dr. Zarkov (talk) 22:52, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
The text states it's secondary objective, and notes a misconception before. but I can't see any details regarding their primary objective. →AzaToth 20:44, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
I guess this page should now be translated to past tense, since the tango.freedesktop.org site no longer exists, the freedesktop.org search engine doesn't give any usable results when searched for 'tango', and Yahoo only gives results from the past...
OhReally (talk) 21:00, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
I noted that there is some relationship between Microsoft/IconFactory icons and Tango/Crystal/Oxygen/other ones. While level of detail may vary, the general rule is for the folder to be "held" root-down, instead of standing semi-open; installer being a box (or window) and disc combo (look at SystemInstaller icon used by WikiProject Software, Microsoft Windows CD autorun icon, some Windows installers based on NSIS) There are only 3 (to my knowledge) icon sets breaking the general rule for the folder: Amiga (though using different metaphors), NT 6.x (Vista and later) icon set, "Stardust". Both of the latter depict the folder as standing semi-open, though the orientation is different. Really, anyone could just google for Mac OS 1 screenshot, GEM screenshot, and so on. Icon sets generally follow same guidelines unless different metaphors are used. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.173.12.68 (talk) 07:08, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
I've attempted to remove tango-project.org as the official website in this article because I don't believe that it is the official site for the Tango Project. It seems clear to me that it has been hijacked and isn't the official site for the project. I think that based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links#Hijacked_and_re-registered_sites, the site should not be included:
--Martey (talk) 05:11, 1 March 2020 (UTC)