I'd say that there's a dearth of desktop apps, creating them in a cross-platform way is easy enough. Not that the situation got a whole lot better, but if you'r

I'd say that there's a dearth of desktop apps, creating them in a cross-platform way is easy enough. Not that the situation got a whole lot better, but if you're doing web UX i.e. don't give a damn about native UI guidelines anyway, minor deviations that UI toolkits introduce pale in comparison. And yeah, I think there were three waves of sound apps on Linux: mp3s becoming commmon/computers fast enough (mid-90s), Amarok switching UIs and everyone writing a retro-replacement and recently music moving into the clouds, thus requiring players that connect to Spotify et al.