Tango Desktop Project
The Tango Desktop Project is a freedesktop.org project that aims to provide users with a more uniform graphical user interface . It provides developers with a single icon theme available, as the different configuration of the desktop environments of Microsoft Windows XP , macOS , KDE and Gnome makes it difficult developers, programs to integrate visually. Programs that use icons that follow the Tango style should fit in well on the outside despite the different surfaces.
aims
Among other things, the project defines a strict standard for the design of icons. This includes a fixed color palette as well as prescribed frame widths and perspectives. The icons themselves do not aim to stand out from the icon sets of other systems, but rather to be as unique as possible within the framework of the icon set and thus to be quickly recognizable for the user. The standard now enjoys such a reputation that other manufacturers who have nothing to do with the project or the open source scene are also creating icons that follow the standard so that their applications run under Windows XP, Mac OS X, KDE, GNOME or Xfce doesn't look out of place.
Apart from these so-called "visual guidelines", the aim of the project is to find memorable names for the icons. The Tango project follows the freedesktop.org standard for icon set names ( Standard Icon Theming Specification ) and advances the Freedesktop.org standard for icon naming ( Standard Icon Naming Specification ).
use
The Tango style guidelines are widely accepted in the open source community. In the meantime, popular software such as GIMP , Scribus , Inkscape , the somewhat less well-known ReactOS , and Gnome icons that adhere to this standard are used. From version 3, the Mozilla Firefox browser on Linux also uses the Tango icons.
Even proprietary software, the icons, the desktop project originated as part of the Tango, use. Well-known closed source software of this type are, for example, VMware Workstation 6 and Medsphere OpenVista CIS .
From version 0.8.90 the icons are in the public domain , previous versions were under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license .
Color palette
The following color palette is used by the Tango Desktop project, sorted by color type and brightness:
| butter | fce94f | edd400 | c4a000 |
| orange | fcaf3e | f57900 | ce5c00 |
| Chocolate | e9b96e | c17d11 | 8f5902 |
| Chameleon | 8ae234 | 73d216 | 4e9a06 |
| Sky blue | 729fcf | 3465a4 | 204a87 |
| Plum | ad7fa8 | 75507b | 5c3566 |
| Scarlet Red | ef2929 | cc0000 | a40000 |
| aluminum | eeeeec | d3d7cf | babdb6 |
| 888a85 | 555753 | 2e3436 |
See also
- Oxygen Project , a similar project in KDE 4
- Nuvola (similar project)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tango Showroom - Tango Desktop Project ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ A first look at the Firefox 3 visual refresh for Linux ( memento of the original from April 17, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ FAQ: Terms of Use?
- ↑ Tango Icon Theme Guide ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Official project homepage (English)
- Linux.com : Tango project aims to clean up the desktop (English)
- Freedesktop.org : Standard Icon Theming Specification (English)
- Standard Icon Naming Specification (English)
- Tango Icon Replacement for Windows (English)