How GNOME-centric! > Desktops like GNOME have expanded their scope to cover most of the responsibilities of platforms, and are in effect platforms now [..., ]

How GNOME-centric! > Desktops like GNOME have expanded their scope to cover most of the responsibilities of platforms, and are in effect platforms now [..., ] app developers target them directly. > the actual product work is happening at the desktop layer now. Nope. I understand that from GNOME's point of view it seems this way, but in really most people don't care about desktop layer, unless it crashes or otherwise gets in a way. In the place where I work, we have hundreds of Linux developers developing Linux products for Linux desktops. We have all sorts of desktop environments on our machine -- GNOME, KDE, LXDE, etc... But we don't care about "platform stylesheet and icons" -- as long as apps run, it it fine. (Yes, we are working on a very specialized segment, our products are not likely to be available to download by general public. But in my experience, this is a pretty common thing for software development in general.)