Desktop Environment for Proprietary Applications?

nushoin writes "Gnome and KDE are the two major desktop environments used on Linux today. However, Gnome is growing more and more affiliated with Microsoft's proprietary technologies (Mono, OOXML). Targeting the Gnome desktop environment could prove dangerous in the long run, assuming that one would like its applications to run on distributions other than SuSE. On the other hand, TrollTech is being bought by Nokia, whose commitment to the desktop world remains to be proven. Assuming that one would like to develop a desktop application (either free or closed source), which desktop environment would you target, and what widget tool kit would you use?"

Comments

Re:FUD

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you saying Jesus was a gnome?

Re:wxWidgets

[Otter]

Yeah, but I heard some of the wxWidgets developers own iPods and XBoxes, so they're clearly untrustworthy also. It seems to me that the submitter has no choice but to develop his own toolkit and not allow anyone else to use it.

Re:Motif

[FudRucker]

elvis is like vi only with sideburns and drives a pink Cadillac...