Desktop Environment for Proprietary Applications?

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 3, 2008 @02:50AM from the desktop-deathmatch dept.

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?"

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Re:Epic FUD by kripkenstein · 2008-02-03 06:36 · Score: 4, Informative

Vala is modeled after C# and compiles directly to plain-ol' generic GObject C. On top of that, the most new code going into GNOME is Python, by a rather wide margin. +1 for pointing out this neat stuff. Vala is a pretty brilliant tool, really I have to give the developers a lot of credit. I expect to see more and more GNOME development being done in Vala. Likewise, Python / pygtk is a great setting and a lot of fun, and well worth developing in.

I am pleasantly surprised that most new code is in Python, interesting, how was this measured?